Scotch

Once, as a child, she had, out of desperation for a terrible cold, stuck a piece of scotch in her right nostril. When the adults realised, they had tried to get her to sneeze it out by sticking a pepper pot under her nose.

Afterwards, she had been taken to hospital. - That was the first time she became aware of class; her stepfather had insisted she was put in a separate room from the other children.