It was Dr. Small, dear Daddy Small, who gave me an intimate knowledge of what was happening in Vienna a year after Armistice, and it was Eileen O’Connor who still further enlightened me by taking me into the babies’ crèches, the _Kinderspital_ and the working people’s homes, where disease and death found their victims. She took me to these places until I sickened and said, “I can bear no more.” Dr. Small had a small office in the _Kärtnerstrasse_, where Eileen worked with him, and it was here that I found them both a day after my arrival in Vienna. Eileen was on her knees, making a wood fire and puffing it into a blaze for the purpose of boiling a tin kettle which stood on a trivet, and after that, as I found, for making tea. Outside there was a raw, horrible day, with a white mist in which those coffins were going by, and with those barefoot children with pallid faces and gaunt cheeks padding by one’s side, so that I was glad to see the flames in the hearth and to hear the cheerful clink of tea-cups which the doctor was getting out. Better still was I glad to see these two good friends, so sane, so vital, so purposeful, as I found them, in a world of gloom and neurosis. The doctor told me of their work. It was life-saving, and increasing in range of action. They had organised a number of feeding centres in Vienna, and stores from which mothers could buy condensed milk and cocoa, and margarine, at next to nothing, for their starving babes. Austrian ladies were doing most of the actual work apart from organisation at headquarters, and doing it devotedly. From America, and from England, money was flowing in. “The tide of thought is turning,” said the doctor. “Every dollar we get, and every shilling, is a proof that the call of humanity is being heard above the old war-cries.” “And every dollar, and every shilling,” said Eileen, “is helping to save the life of some poor woman or some little mite, who had no guilt in the war, but suffered from its cruelty.” “This job,” said the doctor, “suits my peculiar philosophy. I am not out so much to save these babies’ lives----” Here Eileen threatened to throw the teapot at his head. “Because,” he added, “some of them would be better dead, and anyhow you can’t save a nation by charity. But what I am out to do is to educate the heart of the world above the baseness of the passions that caused the massacre in Europe. We’re helping to do it by saving the children, and by appealing to the chivalry of men and women across the old frontiers. We’re killers of cruelty, Miss Eileen and I. We’re rather puffed up with ourselves, ain’t we, my dear?” He grinned at Eileen through his big spectacles, and I could see that between this little American and that Irish girl there was an understanding comradeship. So he told me when she left the room a minute to get another tea-cup, or wash one up.