A.M. | A.M. 8. Cup of tea and toast. | 10. Four ounces milk. | 10. Milk taken with difficulty | and dislike. 11. Medicine. | 11.15. Poultice to chest and | back. | | 11.30. Slept twenty minutes. | 11.30. Turned on right side | before going to | sleep. 12. Four ounces beef-tea. | 12.30. Mrs A. called, stayed | quarter of an hour. | | 12.45-1.30. Excited and | depressed by Mrs | A.’s call. Are visitors to be allowed? The reverse side might read thus: October 4. P.M. | P.M. 8. Four ounces milk. | 9. Jacket poultice. | 9.30. Dozed half-hour. | 9.30. Skin hot and dry, | face flushed; woke | excited and restless. 10. Opiate as directed. | 10.45. Slept two hours. | | 11.30. Began to perspire, | expression tranquil; | woke refreshed. 12.45. Four ounces milk. | To keep such a chart properly requires some practice, but it is the only way of insuring accuracy, and it will also save a good deal of questioning on the doctor’s part, a glance being enough to show him how matters stand. At the bottom of the first page, it will be noticed there is a question, which, unless so marked, would very likely be forgotten; and whenever the nurse is in any difficulty or uncertainty, she must never hesitate to ask for guidance. The doctor will not expect perfection from inexperience, and even if he does not volunteer information, will certainly not object to answering reasonable questions. Of course, there is a great deal of difference in this as in all things, and there are doctors who take for granted that everybody knows certain things, of which even the intelligent, who have not had their attention called to nursing, may be quite ignorant. But even when this is the case, the nurse’s object being her patient’s good and not the support of her own dignity, if she is not sure of her ground, it is her duty to ask for instruction. ONE WOMAN’S HISTORY. CHAPTER VII. A few minutes later, Madame De Vigne and her sister came slowly up the glen from that part of the valley where the wagonettes had been left behind. Presently Clarice paused and gazed around. ‘It looks exactly as it did that day last summer when we were here,’ she said. ‘We might have been away only a few hours.’