| Author: | Ward Muir | ISBN: | 1230001581607 |
| Publisher: | GBooks | Publication: | March 7, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ward Muir |
| ISBN: | 1230001581607 |
| Publisher: | GBooks |
| Publication: | March 7, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Our cup of tea was refreshing, but it would be incorrect to convey the notion that I was allowed to linger over such a luxury. There are few intervals for leisure in the duty-hours of an orderly in an officers' ward. Had the Sister and her nurses not been occupied elsewhere, I doubt whether I should have been free to drink that cup of tea at all—a circumstance of which perhaps Mrs. Mappin was more aware than I.
Our cup of tea was refreshing, but it would be incorrect to convey the notion that I was allowed to linger over such a luxury. There are few intervals for leisure in the duty-hours of an orderly in an officers' ward. Had the Sister and her nurses not been occupied elsewhere, I doubt whether I should have been free to drink that cup of tea at all—a circumstance of which perhaps Mrs. Mappin was more aware than I.
