rom her.

    ill you listen to me? I said.

    Listen to you? La, if I listened to all this house, I should go mad myself. Come on, now.

    arted off mild, grech.

    I said, If youll only not touc.

    eful, Im sure.

    Sugged against o  ted me, more or less dragged me, out of t—Nurse Spiller got t o my arm-pit, and jabbed. You cant see bruises in an arm-pit. I t. S.

    ts my  of tighter and shook me.

    t. I aking—at t of t ss part.  o nurses. e met ts, or bottles, or ss.

    Good morning, t.

    Good morning, my nurses answered.

    Ne last,  me. Come up from the pads? Is she bad?

    Cracked Nancy on the cheek.

    Sled. t she?

    Sixteen, if shes a day.

    Im seventeen, I said.

    t me, in a considering sort of way.

    Ser a minute.

    Aint shough?

    s rouble? Delusions?

    And t, said the one—you know?

    terested. too slig.

    ell, they come in all sizes . . .

    I didnt kno. But being rangers to study, and talk and smile over, made me as silent. t off on igook me, doo a little room. It migry—it iless pantry, at Briar—for t do sig er in ty flannel.

    you? Lets see you wash.

    ter  my face and arms, to was.

    t ie cares y your toes are? s see your linen. S urned o Nurse Spiller, ? too good for

    tll boil up to not ug. You take t off, dear. e s, quite safe, against t, are you shy?

    S e our time. And you, a married lady.

    I aint married, I said. And Ill to k