You are only one.

In fact, I think you're only just born!" He did not speak as lightly as the words read.

In his voice there was that compassionate irony with which men shield those for whom they care.
It means protection and defence.

Somehow she seemed to him like a small bird on its first flight from the nest, or, as Patsy Kernaghan would have said, "a tame lamb loose in a zoolyogical gardin." "So because you won't pray and can't bear it any longer, you run away from him, and come to me!" the other remarked with a sorry smile, pouring out a glass of wine from a decanter that stood on the table.
"Drink this," he said presently, pushing her down gently into a chair with one hand and holding the glass to her lips.

"Drink it every drop.
As I said, you've only run away from one master to fall into another master's hands.