In their name and in mine, sir, I thank you.
"I forget how long it was after the bright day when you comforted and sustained us that the war broke out between France and Germany.

But I can never forget the evening when the matron sent for me into her own room and said, 'My dear, your life here is a wasted life.

If you have courage enough left to try it, I can give you another chance.' "I passed through a month of probation in a London hospital.

A week after that I wore the red cross of the Geneva Convention--I was appointed nurse in a French ambulance.

When you first saw me, Mr.
Holmcroft, I still had my nurse's dress on, hidden from you and from everybody under a gray cloak.
"You know what the next event was; you know how I entered this house.
"I have not tried to make the worst of my trials and troubles in telling you what my life has been.