He received her with the pleasant, manly sympathy for her sex, which had already made him one of the most popular of family physicians in the city where he was practicing at the outbreak of the war.
Rachel's depressed spirits rose again at his cordial reception.
"I am so busy," he said, after a brief exchange of commonplaces, "that I'll not have the time to give you much information this afternoon as to your duties, and I know that you are so fatigued with your journey and the heat that you will not care to do anything but rest and refresh yourself.

I will therefore show you immediately to your quarters." "This will be your field of labor," he said, as he led her down the long aisle between rows of cots toward her room.

"It's not a cheerful one to contemplate at first.

Human suffering is always a depressing spectacle, and you will see here more of it and more varied agony than you can find anywhere outside of an army hospital's walls.

But as the deed is so is the duty, and the glory of doing it.