“One of the best.”

“She is a friend of yours?”

“I admire her very much,” I said warmly. “She is a girl of high moral character, thoroughly honourable and reliable.”

“M’h’m——” He began to roll the inevitable little pencil.

“I suppose a nurse becomes fairly well acquainted with the other nurses, as well as the doctors, who frequent the hospital?”

“Yes,” I said doubtfully, not seeing just where his questions were tending.

“Miss Day looks to be a girl of strong likes and dislikes.”

Well, that was perfectly true so I contented myself with a nod.

“She was a good friend of Miss Letheny’s and—of the doctor’s?”

“Not—particularly,” I said slowly. “We were all on friendly terms. Corole had us over there often.”