The Wistful Asylum
My hands were black with grease and the smell of old oil when I heard the iron sing. It was a low note, a B-flat that vibrated in the teeth, coming from the main girder of the east wing. I wiped my palms on my apron, the rough wool snagging on the dirt, and looked up at the beam. It was humming like a string plucked in an empty room. I had been an orderly for six years, paid two shillings a...
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