From Ian Fleming's "Thunderball"
CHAPTER 3
(Of Patricia Fearing, at Shrublands.)
The girl, Patricia something, whom he had not set eyes on since his first day, stood waiting for him beside the couch. He closed the door behind him and said, “Good lord. is this what you do?”
She was used to this reaction of the men patients and rather touchy about it. She didn’t smile. She said in a business-like voice, “Nearly ten percent of osteopaths are women. Take off your clothes, please. Everything except your shorts.” When Bond amusedly obeyed she told him to stand in front of her. She walked round him, examining him with eyes in which there was nothing but professional interest. Without commenting on his scars, she told him to lie face downward on the couch and, with strong, precise, and thoroughly practised holds, went through the handling and joint-cracking of her profession.
Bond soon realized she was an extremely powerful girl . . Bond felt a kind of resentment at the neutrality of this relationship between an attractive girl and a half-naked man.
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