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`` Oh , yes , she has ; oh , yes , she has , '' came the echo from the other bed ! And Henry subsided . But the buzzing about the hospital would not let us sleep . At three o'clock evidently they were serving tea to the nurses , or lunch of some kind . The moon was shining straight down into the court ; the Gilded Youth and the Eager Soul had gone in , and another couple , a stenographer and a hospital orderly were using it as a parlour . `` Queer , queer business , this love-making under the rustle of the wings of death , '' said Henry . A French plane flying across had filled the compound for a moment .