The surgeon observed that it was now past eleven, and that the patient could not be moved before morning.

If she agreed with him and would lend her motor for the purpose, he would communicate with the hospital and take the Captain there himself between eight and nine o'clock.

For the present he needed no special nursing, and the orderly seemed to be an unusually intelligent young fellow, who could be trusted and was sincerely attached to his master.

The Princess agreed to everything, and asked whether the Captain wished to see her.
He did, and when she stood beside him he pressed her hand gratefully and thanked her with real feeling for her great kindness.

She answered, before Pica, that she would always do anything in her power for any one of his name, and she explained that she would be at the hospital on the following morning to see that he had a good private room and received special care.