The War Department has regularised our position; it will authorise yours.

You need not be afraid." She smiled again reminiscently.
"When our Sisters of the Holy Cross first appeared in the wards, the patients themselves looked at us sullenly and askance.

I heard one say: 'Why can't they take off those white-winged sun-bonnets in the wards ?' And another sneered: 'Sun-bonnets! Huh! They look like busted white parasols!' But, Mrs.Paige, our white 'sun-bonnets' have already become to them the symbol they love most, after the flag.

Be of good courage.

Your silver-gray garb and white cuffs will mean much to our soldiers before this battle year is ended." That evening Ailsa and Letty drove back to the Parm Hospital in their ambulance, old black Cassius managing his mules with alternate bursts of abuse and of praise.