And yet it has in some ways been a very wonderful week and I have had some glimpses of things I never realized before--of how fine and brave people can be even in the midst of horrible suffering.

I am sure I could never be as splendid as Miss Oliver was.
"Just a week ago today she had a letter from Mr.Grant's mother in Charlottetown.

And it told her that a cable had just come saying that Major Robert Grant had been killed in action a few days before.
"Oh, poor Gertrude! At first she was crushed.

Then after just a day she pulled herself together and went back to her school.

She did not cry--I never saw her shed a tear--but oh, her face and her eyes! "'I must go on with my work,' she said.