On the whole, they were extraordinarily quiet and passive.

Modern science has made the battlefield a hell, but it has also made the base hospital something approaching a Paradise.
There were women in plenty.

The staff had been augmented by visitors from most of the other hospitals in the town, and there was a fair sprinkling of W.A.A.C.'s, Y.M.C.A.

workers, and so on, in addition.

Jack Donovan and Peter were a little late, and arrived at the time an exceedingly popular subaltern was holding the stage amid roars of laughter.