The window was shaded with calico curtains, the tin basin and dipper had been scoured to brightness, and beside them stood a cedar water-pail with shining brass hoops.
"Ah," she said, with brightening face, "this is something like living." "Yes," answered Dr.Denslow, "I imagine it IS some improvement upon the sandy desert in which you spent the night.

I hope we will soon be able to make it still more comfortable.

We have just started this hospital, and we are sadly destitute of many of the commonest necessaries of such an institution.

But everything will get better in a week or so, and while I can not exactly promise you the comforts of a home, I can assure you that life will be made more endurable than it seems to be possible now." "I do hope none of this has been taken away from any sick man who needs it more than I ?" said Rachel, with a remembrance of how much the boys in the ward needed.
"Do not disturb yourself with any such thought.

Your comfort has not been bought at the expense of any one else's.