Yet when the flu epidemic returned upon us, she stood by, efficient, deft, and gallant, though still imperious, until the day when she clashed her lath-and-tinsel sword of theory against the tempered steel of the Little Red Doctor's experience.

We agree that the 'flu mortality can hardly have been greater than this.

"How did it happen?" "He went over on one of the 'flu ships,' and when the epidemic began to mow 'em down there was a kind of panic.