You mustn't become so terribly excited; I didn't know what I was saying; I think he is delirious----" "Where is he?
I can't endure this much longer," he kept repeating in a vacant way as they forced a path among the litters and ambulances, and came out through the smoke blowing from a pile of debris that lay where the east wing of the seminary had once stood.
Charred and battered, every window smashed, and the blackened rafters of the roof still smouldering, the east wing rose before them, surrounded by the wounded.
A surgeon told them that Colonel Arran had been carried out of the barn, but to what place he did not know.

Letty with Dr.Benton passed them by the stables, but they knew only that Colonel Arran, lying on a litter, had been placed in an ambulance which had started for Azalea Court House.
This was confirmed by Dr.Connor, who came hurrying by and who halted to scowl heartily at Ailsa.
"No more of _that_!" he said roughly.

"When I want a nurse on the firing line I'll detail her.

I've sent two hundred invalids to the landing, and I wanted you to go with them and when I looked around for you I saw you kiting for the line of battle! That's all wrong, Mrs.Paige! That's all wrong! You look sick anyway.

Are you ?" "No.