But it's no sae hard as to have tha face! Who wull say it is?
And we maun be carefu' wi' such boys as that, tae.

They're verra sensitive; all those that have been hurt are sensitive.

It's easy to wound their feelings.

And it should be easy for all of us to enter into a conspiracy amang ourselves to hide the shock of surprise we canna help feeling, whiles, and do nothing that can make a lad-die wha's fresh frae the hospital grow bitter over the thocht that he's nae like ither men the noo.
Yon's a bit o' a sermon I've been preaching, I'm afraid.

But, oh, could ye ha' seen the laddies as I ha' seen them, in the hospitals, and afterward, when they were waiting tae gae hame! They wad ask me sae often did I think their ain folk could stand seeing them sae changed.
"Wull it be sae hard for them, Harry ?" they've said the me, over and over again.