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[page 205] yes, sir. When I got here at the depot they would perhaps have fifteen minutes to prepare the whole hospital for my reception. Q. That is not my question. My question is whether you considered you kept the law that I have read to you by giving notice ^that you used coming, no matter where you were whether at Calais, Augusta or anywhere A. I think so. I have kept it surely by coming at irregular periods. At the time Gov. Garcelon appointed me, it was with the express stipulation that as I was at such a distance I could accomplish as much, perhaps more good by coming once a month and remaining a week than by residing here and spending one day in a week, coming as Mrs. Quimby did after breakfast and going away after supper. Every time I have been here I have taken my keys which admitted me to every part of the hospital on either side, and unaccompanied by any person, gone around. There is not an officer that can say from the first that I have ever requested their company. I have gone repeatedly to the dinner table, after having spent the entire morning in the halls, and the officers have said "Why, you're here; we didn't know it", when in the mean time I had made