‘It will be pretty ghastly in a hospital if the War goes on,’
and I was surprised at myself; I had not thought consciously
about the wounded men before.
Mollie shuddered.
‘I know,’ she said. ‘I have seen some of it already. There were
some my first month—blinded—it seemed so soon.’
And I thought:
‘Could Hugo be blinded?’
I was glad to have seen Mollie. She brought the War home to me
more clearly than anything else had done. She understood what
it meant, how dreadful it was, and yet she was sane. I wondered
if I could help in a Hospital too; but I was nursing Eleanor
still, and very much tied.
I went for a time with Mrs. Sebright and sewed shirts; then I
did bandages myself, at home, instead.
In January, Guy crossed to France; George Addington sailed for
Gallipoli in April; Hugo’s battalion went out as a reinforcement
in the second battle of Ypres.