Ina Garvey

“ Beryl must needs weigh in with, "But, my dear Blanche, she wouldn't offer you her left hand! It's the left forefinger that gets punished in needlework." "The principle is the same," I answered coldly. "And besides, some people are left-handed." Beryl has decent qualities, I know, and one doesn't want to find fault with anyone just now, but she was always like that―and her hemming, dearest!
Babs is wild to go to the front, but I say she’d be only a nuisance until she knows more about nursing. ”

“ All our first fingers are covered with pricks and look immensely horrid, but we glory in it and won't even put and cold cream on them! As I said yesterday afternoon, when we were all sewing away at flannel, if any woman, I don't care who, offered me her hand and I saw that the first finger was smooth I'd refuse to take it! ”

“ Norty's gone off to help take care of the East coast, and it's lucky to have him helping to protect it and keep watching, for if there's anybody who could see things coming sooner than anybody else it's Norty!
Stella, Beryl, Babs and your Blanche are all back in Town, and when we're not taking lessons in nursing we're sewing at flannel. I make Yvonne do my hair quite, quite plainly, and I'm giving my jewels to the country. ”