I have always found that in recondite matters first impressions are of more real value than later conclusions.

We humans place far too little reliance on instinct as against reason; and yet instinct is the great gift of Nature to all animals for their protection and the fulfilment of their functions generally.
When I stepped out on the balcony, not thinking of my costume, I found that the woman was benumbed and hardly able to move.

Even when I asked her to enter, and supplemented my words with gestures in case she should not understand my language, she stood stock-still, only rocking slightly to and fro as though she had just strength enough left to balance herself on her feet.

I was afraid, from the condition in which she was, that she might drop down dead at any moment.

So I took her by the hand to lead her in.