Posted by Robert Dilley on January 23, 2005 at 04:35:34 from 216.26.208.39 user rdilley.
Just started Winter Holiday and was struck by the sentence in first paragraph "Mrs Dixon had been their mother's nurse when she was a little girl...." Wasn't that rather young to be a nurse?
At best it is ambiguous: "When their mother was a little girl, Mrs Dixon had been her nurse" would have been a bit clearer.