I could be ready by to-morrow, if that will do." Another--a young girl--said: "I could not leave my mother at an hour's notice.

She is ill.

Would tomorrow do, Dr.Benton ?" "I--think I can go to-day," said Ailsa in a low voice.
"Our quota is to be two nurses," said the doctor.

But no other lady could possibly leave before the morrow; and it was, after all, scarcely fair to expect it of women with families to be provided for and home responsibilities to be arranged.
"I could go to-day--if I may be permitted," said the doctor's young assistant, timidly.
He swung around and scowled at her, lips compressed, eyes gleaming through his spectacles: "You are not asked to go, Miss Lynden." "I--thought----" "Do you want to go ?" "If Mrs.Paige is going--alone----" Ailsa looked at her, gratefully surprised, but smiled her thanks.
"If Miss Lynden may come, Dr.Benton, I would be very glad.

May she ?" "Miss Lynden is not a member of Sainte Ursula's congregation," he said drily.