A Sister of Mercy and a male volunteer nurse attended to the patients in this as well as in the four neighboring rooms.

Wilhelm exercised the same influence here as he did everywhere, by the power of his pale thin face, which had not lost all its beauty; by the sympathetic tones of his voice, and above all by the nobility of his quiet, patient nature.
His fellow-sufferers were attracted to him as if he were a magnet.

Some occupants of the room gave up their cigars when they noticed that he did not smoke.

The Frenchman declared immediately that he was le Prussien le plus charmant he had ever seen.

The Sister took him to her motherly heart, and the doctor was constantly at his bedside.