Miss Abigail Rook (born 11 September, 1890) is the daughter of a comfortably wealthy family that dwells within a Kensington townhouse near the heart of London; she was privately educated both in the family estate and abroad in Paris. Her siblings, an elder brother and a younger sister, met her family with tragedy when her sister died of illness in childhood and her brother near the beginning of the Great War in France. Though she always entertained the dream of following a medical profession, she was embittered and emboldened to join with the Voluntary Aid Detachment in 1915 after her brother's death, and thus began her career of service at King's College Hospital. Though her personality was fast known to be quite detached and cutting with the coldness of her words, she nevertheless garnered a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, and so was eventually granted a request of transfer to serve overseas—and thereby escape her parent's worried influence beckoning her to retire from the war effort and stay.

Though she may seem entirely the shrew for her sharply cynical demeanor, there is doubtless a lasting pain that draws about her actions and words, and the way that she has thrown herself into the circumstances of service to her country and the soldier's cause...