"Oh! the beds are properly made," she said; "everything is very clean too.

One can see that the Saint-Frai Sisters have attended to things themselves.

The reserve mattresses are in the next room, however, and if madame will lend me a hand we can place some of them between the beds at once.
"Oh, certainly!" exclaimed young Madame Desagneaux, quite excited by the idea of carrying mattresses about with her weak slender arms.
It became necessary for Madame de Jonquiere to calm her.

"By-and-by," said the lady-superintendent; "there is no hurry.

Let us wait till our patients arrive.