In grateful acknowledgment, I wish to extend my thanks to Jane Ayer Cobb, whose criticism and knowledge of modern young conversation have been invaluable, both in this book and in the volume preceding it.

Brewster, the dormitory for probationers and junior nurses, stands on the outer fringe of the acres of hospital buildings, and that afternoon in September it was still with the stillness of an oven.

"And they'll be ready - just as we are ready," said Bill.