you are! You see, I have 'some' luggage,"
was the reply.

"It will all fit on the car," and signing to a couple of coolie porters,
Honor gave them directions and led the way through the booking office to
the entrance porch. After they had taken their seats and the car had
started, the nurse learned all about the case, in which she showed only
a passing interest. "A married man, did you say?" she asked carelessly.

Honor had not said so, but answered in the affirmative.

"Wife at home?"

"In England; yes."

"And what's your doctor like? I always like to know for one has so much
to do with the doctor, and it's just as well to understand something
about him beforehand," she said, with ill-concealed eagerness.

"I should not describe Captain Dalton better than to say he is very
direct and never wastes words," said Honor, smiling at her first
impressions of Brian Dalton. Her secret knowledge of him thrilled her
happily.

"And what of his looks? Is he as handsome as"--she bit her lips,
stumbled in her sentence, and concluded, "as his pictures? I have seen
his portrait in a photo group of surgeons at the Presidency General
Hospital, in Calcutta."

"I have never thought about his being handsome," said Honor. "He has a
strong face, and an expressive one--on occasions."

"I am told he is a hard man. How does he impress you?"

"I dare say he could be as hard as flint; but I have not experienced
that side of his nature."

"It's a funny little place, this," said the nurse who had not troubled
to give Honor her name. "I rather fancy it. I suppose you manage to have
quite good times since everyone must know everyone else quite
intimately. Like a large family!"

"I am quite fond of it, for I have many good friends."

"I could imagine putting up with it for a change; but to live here year
in and year out, so far away from town and the bustle of life, would
bore me stiff. However, _chacun a son gout_!"

At the house, the nurse was shown her room and left to unpack and
arrange her things, and change into nursing attire. Tea was served to
her in the morning-room though it was nearing the dinner hour, and Honor
remained to entertain her till the doctor returned from another case;
Mrs. Bright having temporary charge of the patient.

Soon afterwards, Captain Dalton arrived and Honor saw him step briskly
into the room. She retired to a distant corner, herself, leaving him to
confer with the nurse and acquaint her with the n