She told him swiftly of her work and where her hospital unit lay.
"I must hurry to my blessés—I am late now," Belinda went on. "It was such a terrible day yesterday. And you are in danger here, too."
This final observation seemed almost to burst unbidden from her lips. Sanderson pressed her hands quickly.
"It's very sweet of you to say so, Miss Melnotte."
"There—there has been nobody I knew so near the battleline before," she faltered. "It seems terrible that you should be flying here."
"But you are housed much nearer the danger zone than I," he said. "Why did you not take up your work in a base hospital?"
"Why did you join the Flying Corps instead of doing some safer work?" she returned.
"Oh, there's excitement in this flying."
"And after yesterday," she said sadly, "I see that there is plenty of excitement in my work."
"You are wonderfully courageous," he said. "But I shall worry, now that I know you are so exposed."