premise: The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine. They knew that the very old, the alcoholics, and the more than slightly batty patients (called ``eccentric'') had to be carefully supervised. This old dear who was to be kept under heavy sedation clearly didn't know that she was a long-term patient being treated for depression.
hypothesis: this old dear was a long-term patient