We, medical students, spent two days a week in the accident room, where Ibegan to feel I was at last learning a little medicine by discovering how to put abandage on without dropping it to the floor first.The order was that a pair of us should sleep once a week in hospital attendingto cases that came during the night. This system was nearly the end of TonyBenskin. In his walks round the sleeping hospital he had met a pretty nurse andit looked as if he had fallen in love with her. Benskin's romance would have ended harmlessly if he had not made a mistake on the last night of our work in the hospital. To celebrate the end of our week in the accident room we spent the evening in the King George. At eleven, when it was time we returned to thehospital, Benskin rushed to see his night nurse, while I went to bed. Just after three I was shaken awake. Automatically I reached for mytrousers, thinking that it was necessary that I should go to the accident room: but it was Benskin."I wish you let me sleep," I said in a rough voice."Old man!" he said. "You've got to help me!" He acted as if somethingterrible had happened."What's the matter?" I inquired sleepily."You know that night nurse — Molly?""Umm.""Well, listen, old man, Oh, I wish you did not go to sleep again. Tonight Icame to see her and before I knew where I was I'd asked her to marry me! Butfor the pint I had had at the King George I would have never done a thing like that!"I tried to clear the sleep and alcohol out of my eyes: "It's doubtful that sheshould have accepted you.""But she did. Don't you realise what's happened! She's set her heart onmarrying me!""Perhaps she'll have forgotten all about it by the morning," I suggestedhopefully."Forgotten? Not on your life! You know what these women are! Thenews'll spread all over the hospital by nine o'clock in the morning. I wish I had never done a foolish thing like that!""If I were you, I would go and explain that it was all in fun."Benskin gave a laugh: "You go!""I see your point. It's necessary that I should think in silence."After about twenty minutes I had an idea. I criticised it to myself carefully,and it looked as if it worked/could work."I think I've got the answer," I said and explained it to him. He shook mewarmly by the hand and rushed away.The solution was a simple one. My advice was that Benskin should proposeto every single night nurse in the hospital.