"A bave—Bittish—officer——" Teddy muttered. Then, turning his big, bright eyes upon his mother, he asked eagerly: "Can I wear my button?" Mummy did not understand, but nurse did, and when it was all explained he was assured that he should wear his button. Then they dressed him, and nurse packed a little suit-case, with Colin Dougal in it, and all his new pyjamas and his dressing-gown, and he and Mummy went alone together to that strange house full of nurses. A great many odd things happened that night, and Teddy simply couldn’t have borne the strangeness of it all if his button had not been fastened on the pocket of the jacket of his pyjamas: they were real pyjamas, two garments, not baby ones fastened together. He didn’t sleep very well that night, but as often as he woke up he touched his button and repeated to himself "Guadaloupe, Martinique, Selingapatam," which are the first three of the long list of battles fought by the Black Watch. Girzie’s brother could say them all, and Teddy loved to hear him roll them out in his strong Scottish voice, and tried to learn them himself, but they are mostly very long names, and only the first three remained in his mind. Every one was most kind, but it was depressing not to have any breakfast. Mummy’s cold seemed to get worse, and one of the nurses suggested that it would be better if she did not come as far as the operating-room lest she should give it to Teddy. His heart was thumping in his ears. He kissed mummy, he kissed Colin Dougal, who simpered sweetly as usual (his leg hardly showed at all) and was quite unmoved; and then, with lips that trembled, he whispered "Bave Bittish officer" to himself over and over again. He put one hand into that of the kind nurse, and held his button with the other, and together they went down a long passage into a room that was walled and floored with white tiles. It had no chairs in it, only tables, one of them long and narrow and high, right in the middle of the room. Two doctors were waiting for them, and the one Teddy had seen at the hotel had his coat off as if he was going to play some game. He looked very kindly at Teddy as they came in. "You’re a man," he said. "I can see that." "I sall not ky," Teddy said in rather a shaky voice. "I sall not ky, because I’m going to be a soldier, and they don’t, you know." "I guessed that, the minute I saw you," said the doctor. "We like soldiers here, they get well extra quick. Up with you, and you mustn’t mind when we put that funny thing over your face." Teddy lay down on the high narrow table. He looked up anxiously at the doctor he didn’t know. "You won’t take my button away, will you, not when you make me go to sleep?" "Keep a tight hold of it," said the doctor, "and you’ll find it there when you wake up. No one would dream of touching it."