Next to this, the subject most constantly in his mind was the plan of the hospital.
Madame Le Maitre had said to him: "I have tried to persuade the people to bring their sick to beds in my house, where we would nurse them, but they will not.

It is because they are angry to think that the sick from different families would be put together and treated alike.

They have great notions of the differences between themselves, and they cannot realize the danger, or believe that this plan would avert it; but now that you have come, no doubt you will be able to explain to them more clearly.

Perhaps they will listen to you, because you are a man and a doctor.

Also, what I have said will have had time to work.