Mrs. Morland, in spite of her large and constant public, was always surprised, interested and pleased to hear that anyone had really read her books, though sometimes a little depressed by the way in which her friends lent their copy, or even the library copy, to one another, and she took very seriously any technical criticism that came her way.
“You see,” she said earnestly to Matron, “I didn’t like to make it a real uniform, because the hospital it belonged to mightn’t have liked it, for, if you remember, the nurse was really only a half-German woman, who had married an Englishman but only did it to spite England, in disguise, and all she did was to keep the heroine under drugs till the villain could come, but it was really the hero disguised as a doctor and he killed her with a poison t
