“ Oh, dear, but I’ve promised a thousand ladies already!” said Scarlett.
“ Mrs. Merriwether, I’ll be bound!” cried Mrs. Meade indignantly. “Drat the woman! I believe she meets every train!”
“ I promised because I hadn’t a notion what it was all about,” Scarlett confessed. “What are hospital committees anyway?”
Both the doctor and his wife looked slightly shocked at her ignorance.
“ But, of course, you’ve been buried in the country and couldn’t know,” Mrs. Meade apologized for her. “We have nursing committees for different hospitals and for different days. We nurse the men and help the doctors and make bandages and clothes and when the men are well enough to leave the hospitals we take them into our homes to convalesce till they are able to go back in the army. And we look after the
