"That would be very bad nursing! One's object in treating a case is to make one's patient well; so one naturally avoids any sort of subject that might be distressing or alarming." "You really mean it ?" Her face was pleading.
"Why, of course.

I try to make my patients my friends; I talk to them cheerfully; I amuse them and distract them; I get them away, as far as I can, from themselves and their symptoms." "Oh, what a lovely person to have about one when one's ill!" the languid lady exclaimed, ecstatically.

"I SHOULD like to send for you if I wanted nursing! But there--it's always so, of course, with a real lady; common nurses frighten one so.

I wish I could always have a lady to nurse me!" "A person who sympathises--that is the really important thing," Hilda answered, in her quiet voice.

"One must find out first one's patient's temperament.