Bok was desirous of securing her own story of her experiences, but on every hand he found an unwillingness even to take him to her house.

"No use," said everybody.

"She won't see any one.

Hates publicity and all that sort of thing, and shuns the public." Nevertheless, the editor journeyed to the famous nurse's home on South Street, in the West End of London, only to be told that "Miss Nightingale never receives strangers." "But I am not a stranger," insisted the editor.

"I am one of her friends from America.