Griffiths began undressing one patient before she was in her bedroom and pulled another around by her nightdress.

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She held her nightdress down as she climbed out of the bed.

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Then, at 10, I realised with appalling clarity that I was still in my nightdress, hair in all directions looking like nothing on earth.

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She spent her 21st birthday on board the rescue ship Carpathia, from where she wrote a letter to her mother, who had remained in Cornwall, saying she had been "thrown" into a lifeboat wearing just her nightdress and boots.

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Hot as it was, my decorous mother had pulled a robe over her thin nightdress she too had been asleep and roused by the noise and she sat now on the sofa beside my father, her fingers over her mouth as though she were trying to keep from being sick.

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