Part 10 (1/2)

They know so little about each other, and they don't ask It is only I onder--I, a woman, and therefore of the old, burnt-out world These men watch without curiosity, speak no personalities, for They are new-born; they have as yet no standards and do not look for any

Ah, to have had that experience too! I aain I realize, ”A nation in arms”

Watchners, actors, travellers in underwear, bank clerksthey come here in uniforms and we put them into pyjamas and nurse the us as wefaith of children

The outside world has faded since I have been in the hospital Their world is often near s they say when they come in wounded

The worst of it is it alo to London, and London was always arden at home, I think It is so easy not to leave it

When you wake up theis full of branches, and last thing at night the moon is on the snow on the lawn and you can see the pheasants'

footoes to the hospital

When Madeleine telephones toin a whirl” it disturbs ain

Not that it is their world, those trenches When they come in wounded or sick they say at once, ”What shows are on?”

Mr Wicks has ceased to read those azines his sister sends him; he now stares all day at his white bedrail

I only pass hi, and then as I glance at hi all down the ward of what he thinks, or if he thinks

Iabout him; it is possible he doesn't think at all, but stares himself into some happier dream

One day when he is dead, when he is as totally dead as he tells me he hopes to be, that bed with its haunted bedrail will bend under another ht, dreas about it now is almost visible to me

Mr Wicks is an uneducated and ordinary man In what manner does his dreaun to drop away a little fro

He reflects deeply at tiht, as I went quickly past him with my load of bath-towels, his blind flapped a little, and I saw themy towels, I pulled his blind back:

”Mr Wicks, look at the moon”

Obedient as one who receives an order, he reached up to his supporting handle and pulled his shoulders half round in bed to look withover the hill

I dropped the blind again and took up my towels and left him