Florence Nightingale1985

Fanny Nightingale:
Inside the hospital?

Florence Nightingale:
Not much to see on the outside.

Fanny Nightingale:
You, without asking our permission, went alone into all that filth and squalor?

Florence Nightingale:
That's a fair description of it, Mama. How did you know?

Parthe Nightingale:
How dare you address mama in that fashion!

Florence Nightingale:
Would you have me contradict her and say that it was beautiful? Or that the doctors and nurses were sober? Or that the floors were sparkling and clean instead of filthy and verminous? And that the stench was almost enough to make...

Fanny Nightingale:
Florence, that is quite enough!