Matron's

Harriet wriggled uneasily on her chair, remembering Matron's query as to whether Staff Nurse Wilson was completely reliable.

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Matron's revenge for the slur is a deep cleaning of the ward.

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The Matron's house is settled towards the back of the Children's Town compound: beyond the quartz-stoned entrance gate, past the middle grade classrooms and the school bell, through the thatch-fenced kitchen with stoves of boiling rep cabbage and onions, and just by a garden of herbs.

Julie Fefferman: The Matron 2008

A voice gently resounds from inside the Matron's house: asking for water, demonstrating how to pluck a chicken, and laughing with consolation as she dresses a child's small wound.

Julie Fefferman: The Matron 2008

The evening went better than she had expected she had three nurses on with her, so that she was able to leave most of the treatments to the more senior of them, leaving her free to deal with doctor's visits, Matron's report and suppers.

Tulips For Augusta Neels, Betty 1971

Augusta, under cover of Matron's polite conversation, verified that the shoes really vere lizard; she also looked to see if there was an engagement ring, to be thwarted by the fact that there was a ring on every finger.

Tulips For Augusta Neels, Betty 1971

There was no one in sight, so she felt free to execute a few skips and jumps to relieve the excitement Matron's words had engendered.

Damsel In Green Neels, Betty 1970

Listening to their happy chatter, she felt a small shiver of apprehension; supposing Matron's 'splendid career' was to be her lot in life?

Damsel In Green Neels, Betty 1970

When it was at last her turn, Georgina knocked, entered and stood, as she had stood so many times before, in front of Matron's desk, only this time she was bidden to take a chair.

Damsel In Green Neels, Betty 1970

How she found her way to Matron's room she never remembered.

The Second Form at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1970