He remembered that he had seen something like it in the best pictures of the old masters.
"Mademoiselle Julie!" he said.
"You have come back," she said gently.

"We have been anxious about you.
Philip has been to see you three times." He noticed that she, too, wore the somber dress with the red cross, and he began to comprehend.
"A nurse," he said.

"Why, you are too young for such work!" "But I am strong, and the wounded are so many, hundreds of thousands, they say.

Is it not a time for the women of France to help as much as they can ?" "I suppose so.

I've heard that in our civil war the women passed over the battle fields, seeking the wounded and nursed them afterward.