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People dressed themselves as costlily as they could, for hours beforehand then spent a half-hour or more fuming in a carriage-and-motor tangle waiting to arrive at the entrance, while the heat sweat all the starch out of themselves and their clothes. A constant flood poured in upon Mrs. Noxon, or tried to find her at the receiving-post. She was usually not there.
Our objective was a great freight station which the Government, some months before, had turned into a receiving-post for the wounded; it lay on the edge of the yard, some distance in from the street, behind a huddle of smaller sheds and outbuildings.
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