"But the Daniel, Maggie! The Daniel with the explosive aboard - why! it's no place for a girl. I can't -"
"A girl! I'm not a girl tonight, Patrick. I'm a nurse and I want a nurse's place. I have my duty and I know what it is. It doesn't lie where I am safe. Never! It's where men are fighting and dying. I must do my duty by my father. I cannot leave him. Nor you. Nor your men. I belong to them as they belong to me. No, I will not leave you. No matter what you say."
(from The Gaunt Woman, by Edmund Gilligan)
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