"I must tell you frankly, Kathryn, that you will be called upon to take her place.

I am going to send her away into the wilds.

The War only ceases for people who are sent into wild places.

Dr.Redcliff is quite fixed in that opinion.
People who need taking care of must be literally hidden away in corners where war vibrations cannot reach them.

He has sent Emily Clare away and even her friends do not know where she is." Later in the day Lady Lothwell came and in the course of a few minutes drew near to her mother and sat by her chair rather closely.