"And the night nurse left her post Tuesday morning and did not return in the evening, as she was expected to do?"
"That's it, miss. Mrs. Tolliver was greatly annoyed, but fortunately she was able to secure another nurse at once."
"What was the nurse's name—the one who abandoned her job without notice?"
"Let me see. It wasn't Gorham. I'll call Alice, my assistant; I feel quite sure that she will know."
Alice promptly answered the bell and on being questioned said:
"The nurse was Mrs. Orme. She'd been with Mrs. Tolliver ever since she was took sick, and was the best nurse she's had."
"Why did she leave?" asked Josie.
"I don't know, miss, I'm sure. She were a quiet body, never sayin' much to no one. But quite ladylike, she were, an' most of us liked her."
"Can you describe her?"
"Well, she isn't tall—not so very tall, you know—an' she's got a good form an' good manners. I take it she's about thirty- five, an' handsome for her age. Good eyes, but mostly looks down an' don't show 'em. Very neat an' tidy. Brown hair. She wore gray clothes, you know—the reg'lar nurse's uniform."