asked the German servants to carry the luggage to the station for the last civilian train, which was to leave at six in the morning.
"I don't mind carrying anything for you, Schwester," said the hall porter, "but I won't do a thing for those dogs of Russians and English."
"The Sister came back and said timidly, 'If the doctor and Your Grace don't mind helping me, we might perhaps take at least some of these things together.'
"So Wiesdorf station beheld the extraordinary sight of the Duchess pulling an enormous portmanteau and perspiring freely, and behind her Princess Uriassof, James P., and myself, each pushing a wheelbarrow. The station was already thronged with soldiers in Feldgrau. We were ravenously hungry. I asked the young Alsatian girl to accompany me to the refreshment-room, and she was able,
thanks to her nurse's bonnet, to obtain two pieces of extremely dry bread from the military canteen.
"I found my patients ensconced in a fourth-class carriage. Their eyes were shut, they were leaning against the duty wooden back of the seat, and on their faces was a smile of indescribable bliss.
"The Princess greedily seized the piece of bread I handed her, took an enormous bite out of it, and said to the Duchess:
"'What nice bread!'
"'What nice seats!' replied Her Grace, leaning voluptuously against the hard, greasy boards."