A diary without dates.

  • Bagnold, Enid.
Date:
[1918]
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Credit: A diary without dates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing, and, meeting there, puts down her straw basket, taps at the panel, and hstens to the scolding of the old men with only half an ear. For the bachelors amuse themselves when they are not mixing and weighing by invent- ing odd rules and codes of their own, and, reaching a skinny arm through the hatchway, they pin them on, little scraps of paper which fall do\\Ti and are swept to heaven in the charwomen's pails. Andthe V.A.D.'s, who are not at all afraid, because one cannot be afraid of a man of whom one has never seen more than half, turn a blind eye to the slips and a deaf ear to the voices, bringing their bottles and their jars just in the manner they were taught to do when first they entered the hospital. And they gossip! They have just seen the morning papers on all the beds ; they have just heard about the half-days for the week ; they have collected little rags and ends of news as they came along the corridor. They gossip. And once a bearded bachelor thumped the panel down almost on my finger, leaving three startled faces staring at a piece of painted wood. But a little dark girl worked the panel up an inch with her nails and cajoled through the crack.