The volunteer diplomat bowed.

"Then I must refer you to our naval attache, on the first floor," he said.

"Any tickets for battle-ships must come through him." I suggested he was having a hard time.
"If we remained in Paris," he said, "we all had to help.

It was a choice between volunteering to aid Mr.Herrick at the embassy or Mrs.
Herrick at the American Ambulance Hospital and tending wounded Turcos.

But between soothing terrified Americans and washing niggers, I'm sorry now I didn't choose the hospital." In Paris there were two embassies running overtime; that means from early morning until after midnight, and each with a staff enlarged to six times the usual number.