boilings-down

Updated: July 4, 2026

"Arriving Bradford five-thirty, Tom," was the result of final boilings-down, which took so long that we nearly achieved the anticlimax of missing our train altogether. Briggs was perceptible. I kept my patient on the platform until every other passenger had gone: I marched him up and down the main area of the station. Each time I caught sight of a woman who looked a possible Mrs.

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly: Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital