"Is she able to receive visitors ?" "Oh, yes," replied the matron.

"She is sitting in a wheeled chair on the second-story veranda.

Miss Elton," she called to a nurse who had just entered, "take these young women up to the veranda, they wish to see the patient who has 47." "What is her--" began Grace.

But at that moment a nurse hurried in with a communication for the matron.

Grace waited a moment, bent on repeating her question, but the nurse said rather impatiently, "This way, please," and the opportunity was lost.
The three girls began to feel a trifle diffident as they approached the stranger who was seated in a wheeled chair in a corner of the veranda.
"Visitors to see you, madam," said the nurse curtly, halting before the patient.