"My dear, if you stay, you will be obliged to see all manner of horrible things."
"They must be worse to bear than to see, Mrs. Sandford."
"But you cannot endure to see them, Daisy; you never can.
Grant will never allow it."
I sewed in silence, thinking that Dr. Sandford would conform his will to mine in the matter.
"I will never forgive him if he does!" said the lady. But that also I thought would have to be borne. My heart was firm for whatever lay before me. In the hospital, by Preston's side, I was sure my work lay; and to be there, I must have a place at other bedsides as well as his. In the morning Mrs. Sandford renewed her objections and remonstrances as soon as she saw her brother-in-law; and to do him justice, he looked as ill pleased as she did.
"Daisy wants to go into the hospital as a regular nurse," she said.
"It is a weakness of large-hearted women now-a-days."
"Large-hearted! Grant, you are not going to permit such a thing?"
"I am no better than other men," said the doctor; "and have no more defences."
"But it is Daisy that wants the defences," Mrs. Sandford cried; "it is she that is running into danger."