We thought that perhaps you'd never wake up reasonably." "Did you?
I always knew that I should." "And how did you know that ?" "Because someone whom I am very fond of, came and told me so." She glanced at him sharply.
"Then it's myself that should be flattered," she answered, "or the night nurse, seeing that it is we who have cared for you with no visitors admitted except the doctors, and they didn't talk that way.
Now, Colonel, just you drink this and have a nap, for you mustn't speak too much all at once.

If you keep wagging your jaw you'll upset the bandages." When he woke again it was night and now the full moon, such a moon as one sees in Egypt, shone upon the side of the Great Pyramid and made it silver.

He could hear voices talking outside his door, one that of the Irish nurse which he recognised, and the other of a man, for although they spoke low, this sense of hearing seemed to be peculiarly acute to him.
"It is so, Major," said the nurse.

"I tell you that except for a little matter about someone whom he thought had been visiting him, he is as reasonable as I am, and much more than you are, saving your presence." "Well," answered the doctor, "as you speak the truth sometimes, Sister, I'm inclined to believe you, but all I have to say is that I could have staked my professional reputation that the poor chap would never get his wits again.

He has had an awful blow and on the top of an old wound, too.