She sails with hospital stores.

_What_ do you think of that ?" "Where are we going ?" asked Letty, bewildered.
"You poor, sleepy little thing," said Ailsa, sitting down on the bed's shaky edge, "I'm sure I don't know where we're going, dear.
Two Protestant nurses are coming here to superintend the removal of our sick boys--and Dr.West says they are old and ugly, and that Miss Dix won't have any more nurses who are not over thirty and who are not _most_ unattractive to look at." "I wonder what Miss Dix would do if she saw us," said Letty naively, and sat up in bed; rubbing her velvety eyes with the backs of her hands.

Then she yawned, looked inquiringly at Ailsa, smiled, and swung her slender body out of bed.
While she was doing her hair Ailsa heard her singing to herself.
She was very happy; another letter from Dr.Benton had arrived.
Celia, who had gone to Washington three days before, to see Mr.
Stanton, returned that evening with her passes and order for transportation; and to Ailsa's astonishment and delight she found that the designated boat was the _Mary Lane_.
But Celia was almost too nervous and too tired to talk over the prospects.
"My dear," she said wearily, "that drive from the Chain Bridge to Alexandria has mos'ly killed me.

I vow and declare there was never one moment when one wheel was not in a mud hole.

All my bones ache, Honey-bud, and I'm cross with talking to so many Yankees, and--do you believe me !--that ve'y horrid Stanton creature gave orders that I was to take the oath!" "The--oath ?" asked Ailsa, amazed.
"Certainly.