"There is plenty of excitement, if that is what you want," said Major Strause.
"Well, it doesn't come to me," answered the girl. "I spend all my days here. I am awfully frightened, too. I am terribly afraid of the shells. Do you think one of them will strike the hotel, Major Strause?"
"Can't tell you; hope not."
"Well, that is poor comfort," said Kitty, and she gave a dreary laugh.
The major was not getting any nearer the object of his visit. This would never do.
"If I were you," he said, "I would go into the hospital and make myself useful."
"I cannot; they have turned me out."
"Who have?"
"Why, Mollie, my sister, and—and Gavon."
"Oh, indeed! And did they give you a reason?"