If calmed for a time, the paroxysm is very liable to return.

She wakes in the night, perhaps, with an indefinable feeling of anxiety and terror, and comes to her mother's bedside, to seek, in her presence, and in the sense of protection which it affords, a relief from her distress.
The conscientious mother, supremely anxious to secure the best interests of her child, may say that, after all, it is better that she should endure this temporary suffering than not be saved from the sin.

This is true.

But if she can be saved just as effectually without it, it is better still.
_The Gentle Method of Treatment_.
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We now come to the gentle measures which may be adopted in a case of discipline like this.