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166 QUARRELS BETWEEN THE ALLIES [ch. xi.
energetic woman was entirely absorbed in the
management of the work she had undertaken and into which
she was putting her whole heart; she never left the
enormous hospital, and we often wondered whence she
drew the physical strength to bear all this unceasing
work.
Towards the middle of May an old acquaintance of
mine, Mademoiselle Pauline Milutin,1 arrived in Sofia.
Always interested in politics and in good works,
Mademoiselle Milutin expressed the wish to make the
acquaintance of Madame Karavelov, and in order to
fulfil this wish I gladly escorted her to the large hospital
in the Military School.
Madame Karavelov received us amongst her invalids,
of which at this time the number had considerably
diminished. There were few seriously wounded, but on
the other hand many maimed men, who were finishing
their treatment and trying to get accustomed to doing
without the missing limbs : some were in bed, some
sitting up, and others hobbling about on crutches; and
in small, low invalid chairs some poor wretches with no
legs were helping themselves along with their hands
and appearing to take pleasure in this enforced sport.
We went through all the wards, and when we returned
to the visitors’ room, we began to talk politics; or
rather it was Mademoiselle Milutin who talked and I—
foreseeing what might occur—who only listened. My
companion began to try and convince Madame Karavelov
of the necessity of giving up Southern Macedonia to the
Serbians. It was interesting to see the emotion and
even the indignation with which Madame Karavelov
was seized when she understood what the speaker was
driving at.
"What? Give up Macedonia to the Serbians?
Macedonia which was given to us by the Treaty of San
Stefano ? Macedonia which has been the goal of all our
1 Daughter of the Secretary of State, Nicolas Milutin, one of the best
known men at the grand epoch of the reforms of the Emperor
Alexander II.
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