, 1896-12-23


heads together in tn, wards and scatter
ed directly she went near them, that
thcv distressed her nre,ty often.
She only made one friend among them
all-tiy, bouncing, red checked Nurse
Gore. whose 'lauph was a ~thunderclan
and who was repor.ed to take her holt
DAYS in August because of the grouse,
1t reminded me of the oak and the ivv
and all that sort of thing to see them
together.
One day Nurse Smiles. with whom
used to have little chats before Nurse
Morrison came, gave me a hint,
One has tn he Friendly with the pprses
if one wishes to be thoroughly well
up in the progress Of patients. but I had
rather dropped Nurse Smiles because she
was silly about Nurse Morrison.
That day l went out of the ward for
an instrument, leaving Nurse Morrison
there. When l came back, Nurse Smiles
was there in her place.
"Where's nurse?" l said
'Do you mean Mrs, Morrison?' she
asks as cool AS YOU please, and then
sob, what have l said? Please don't
notice it!'
81 WON'T told her and went on
with my business alone, but when l re-
peated it to Trafford that night he got
quite excited and rayed up and down
the room.
81 knew It'll" he told me. 'They're
all talking about it. The poor little
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She slips out to see him whenever she
can. Nurse Gore is the only one who
knows all, butt And with that he
pushed a scrap of paper into my hand.
"Read that, " he said tercely, and l read
it.
Cant. Have arranged to meet John.
He has promised not to be so rough"
stared alternately at the paper and
at Tratford.
Its here,' he explained. "You
know the poor little thing is on night
duty just now, and Nurse Cores Oh by
day. So they don't meet much, and
their plan is to leave notes for one al.
other hidden on their dressing tables
"How on earth l began, but Traf-
ford held up a warning hand and stop
ped me.
Gas senior RESIDENT he said, and
l shut up.
"Nurse Smiles brought me this note
he went on, land I didn't say what l
thought of her, for I'm determined to
help the DOOR soul. and Buzz mustn't
hear it. That woman Smiles Thought
it should be known 1t was in answer
to a note from Nurse Gore, saying to-
morrow morning is her day off and sug.
costing "a trip. You mark my words,
that girl IS : 4. ed for life" With that
he left me, TO get the note Struggled
back by the conscientious Nurse Smiles,
and | wondered what would come next.
l had not to wait long.
The next day he came to mo with an
other note from Nurse Cores room.
81 have snapped the chain! John is
furious. Oh, what can / dc? l could
kill myself. 1 nearly did"
We stared at one another in silence.
Then Trafford spoke.
"She's in her room crying" he said.
"Nurse Gore dropped the note in her
w room after reading it and went to
her. I've promised to meet the chief
outside for All operation. DO YOU think
she's safe? She has broken loose some
how, you see, but still
''I'll SEQ to that" I told him, and he
went off.
Then | sent word that I wanted to see
Nurse Morrison about one of the pa
tjents, OF course, as a psychologist, I
knew that a woman of a neurotic tenn
permanent in such a frenzied condition
might do ANYTHING.
She came after some DELAY, I asked
her to sit down, and | saw at once not
only that she had been CRYING, but also