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So they get it into their heads that they're called upon to reform the world a nice handy little job, that'll keep them going. The girls, I notice, are beginning to have the same craze. I shouldn't wonder if Paula gets an idea that she'll be a hospital-nurse, or go district-visiting in Bethnal Green. 'I certainly should if I thought it would amuse me, said Paula. 'But why shouldn't Mr.
The trial was short and summary. Mariquita, dressed still in the sober, quaker-like garb of a hospital-nurse, said what she had to say in a few simple words.
"Ring down the curtain," said Mr. Marrier in a thrilled voice. Shortly afterwards Mr. Marrier came into the managerial office, lit up now, where Edward Henry was dictating to his typewriter and hospital-nurse, who, having been caught in hat and jacket on the threshold, had been brought back and was tapping his words direct on to the machine.
So the sun used to set in old Virginia, he thinks. A tall, slab-sided man, in the dress of a hospital-nurse: a worn face, but quick, sensitive; the patients like it better than any other: it looks as if the man had buried great pain in his life, and come now into its Indian-summer days.
"I've got your tea here," she said, rather like a hospital-nurse now. "Won't you drink it?" "I'll drink it if it's not stewed," he muttered. "Oh!" she protested, "of course it isn't! I poured it off the leaves into another teapot before I brought it up." She went behind the barrier, and reappeared balancing a cup of tea with a slice of sultana cake edged on to the saucer.
"A relapse?" said Cynthia quickly. "Yes, a relapse. They've had a hospital-nurse for him, I hear. He's not raving now, they say, but very weak and stupid-like." "Have none of his friends come to nurse him?" said Cynthia. "I don't know. The gardener wouldn't hear that, maybe. He said there'd been a death in the family some child or other. Would that be General Vane's little boy, do you suppose?"
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