The English are so fortified by tea it's almost as if they can take on anything after they've had a cuppa. She puts a kettle on over the fire outside the tent, then rejoins John inside.

After helping him into the cot, she sits down at the end of it. This reminds her of when she took care of Matthew after his injuries in the war, though at least John's injuries are much less dire than his were.

"There isn't much to be done for it other than binding it up. I don't think we even have morphine here, not that you ought to take too much of that anyway."

She's heard the stories about the dead-eyed morphine addicts, usually veterans from the war with chronic injuries.