"How do you do, Dr. Reid?" She laughs and shakes her head at his comment. "I must put on a good show then, because I hadn't a clue what I was doing."

Mary followed his orders, basically. Hopefully by doing so, the man lived. She would have to try and follow up in order to find out.

"My sister was a nurse during the war, but I felt no such calling." Her type of contribution to the war effort was more along the lines of charity events.