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We expect to be over there soon as we are beside a large marsh which swarms with mosquitos in the warm weather, and they are the kind which gave malaria. In fact we are partly packed up now to go but in military life you never know what is going to be done until you see it in writing. The army is the worst place for rumors I have yet seen. We simply live on them. I think sometimes the officers vie with one another to see who can start the wildest rumor. I am on night duty now, and have only one more week of it. I have fifty eight patients with one orderly to help me. Thank goodness the orderly is a married man consequently he is well trained and very obedient. My men are in eight different tents strung along in a row. When the moon is not up I have many a narrow escape over those old guy ropes trying to locate the various groans and moans...  One of the day raids was most interesting to us. An Allied and a German airship had a scrap directly above us, and one of the shells came down through the roof of the Nurses’ mess tent, smashing table, bench, and going several inches into the ground. Fortunately it was eleven o’clock in the morning and no nurses were there. Two bombs fell inside the camp that day and one on the road.