Excerpt from The Woman in the Alcove I was not made for love. This I had often said to myself; very Often Of late. In figure I am too diminutive, in face far too unbeautiful, for me to cherish expectations Of this nature. Indeed, love had never entered into my plan Of life, as was evinced by the nurse's diploma I had just gained after three years of hard study and severe training. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.