"To be suspected of the most ghastly crime by the men I care for is just the drop too much now," he answered.
"It shall be put right," she replied at once.
A light flashed into her eyes, the colour returned to her face, her lips grew red.
"But you cannot put it right, Nurse Mollie."
"It shall be put right. Don't be afraid."
She laid her hand on his shoulder as she spoke, and looked into his eyes. Then she said, in a hoarse voice which he scarcely recognized as hers,—
"Leave me—you are better; leave me. I have something to do at once."
As soon as ever he had gone, Mollie sent an orderly from the hospital to desire Major Strause to come to see her without a moment's delay. The man said that he had never seen Nurse Mollie so imperative. He rushed off immediately to do her bidding, and in half an hour Major Strause was in her presence.
"I must speak to you where we can be alone," said the girl.
"We can be alone there," he said, and he motioned to a little lobby just outside one of the wards.