He lifted her! Ah! a shrunken little body, he could feel its weakness as he touched it.

His hands were to him glorified for what they had done.
"Thank you! that is so nice.

Other people hurt me when they touch me," she said.

"Thank you!" Then after a little while she repeated humbly, "Thank you; they hurt me so." Gregory sat down trembling.

His little ewe-lamb, could they hurt her?
The doctor said of Gregory four days after, "She is the most experienced nurse I ever came in contact with." Gregory, standing in the passage, heard it and laughed in his heart.
What need had he of experience?
Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.