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Romance of philanthropy and self-sacrifice. A chance meeting with a clergyman from the London slums on holiday in a Swiss village convinces a carefree young English girl to become a nurse. She refuses an offer of marriage from another companion to return to England. Three years later she and the clergyman meet in the slums but before he can propose to her she has died of typhoid fever. Women's work question obliquely contrasted with matrimony. (PB)
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