"Whatever it is that you want to know, don't use an iota of strength to talk or to think about it now.
Just say to yourself, he loves me well enough to do what is right, and I know that he will.

All you have to do is to be patient until you grow stronger than you ever have been in your life, and then you shall have exactly what you want, Ruth.

Sleep like a baby for a week or two.

Then, slowly and gradually, we will build up such a constitution for you that you shall ride, drive, row, swim, dance, play, and have all that your girlhood has missed in fun and frolic, and all that your womanhood craves in love and companionship.

Happiness has come at last, Ruth.