"You should have seen Mary's face. It was tragic, and Tom was so unconscious. Then, her second blow came when she knew that he was going back. You see, she hadn't an idea but what this would mean that that was the end of it. I think she had some notion that he would not want to go back; that getting hurt would kill this strange, unfamiliar thing that possessed him. Mary is like so many of us American women. Certainly I used to be so--afraid somebody will get hurt--afraid of suffering. Why, I cannot see that you can know much about life unless you suffer, and see suffering. Mary could not understand it. When Young Tom really was all right, which was very soon, he went out and enlisted--enlisted in the Marines. "Mary went all to pieces. Of course Tom stood by the boy. A week after he was gone, she came out here one afternoon. 'Nancy Cowder,' she said, 'do you think I could be used at the camp?' "'Oh, Mary,' I told her, 'if you only would go to the camp, we need you so.' She looked at me in such a curious way.--'Need me? What for?' 'The boys need you,' I said. 'We cannot do for them the hundredth part of what we ought. Boys like Young Tom need you. You should be doing here, Mary,' I said, 'just what other American women will be doing for Young Tom.' "'I think I must try,' she said. 'I have discovered I have lost my husband and I have lost my son. I don't understand what they are talking about. I don't understand what they feel. They have no interest in me and no interest in what I do. I don't know that I can ever get them back. But I must have something to do.' "Well, I sent her into the city for a course as a nurse's orderly. She made a great discovery there. And, oh, the things she has learned since she has been working in camp. You can see from her face that it's a new Mary. And Tom--Tom is the happiest man in the world, though Mary, I think, doesn't know it, yet. The clouds have not all cleared off her mountain top, but she is there. War is a dreadful thing, a hideous, wicked thing, but there are some of us that have discovered the greatness of life through it."