It must be done absolutely without prejudice.

There is no time to lecture or condemn or even deplore.

There is only time to try to heal wounds and quiet maddening pain and save life." Lady Lothwell took the subject up.
"In the country places and villages, where the new army is swarming to be billeted, the clergymen and their wives are greatly agitated.

Even in times of peace one's vicar's wife tells one stories in shocked whispers of 'immorality'-- though the rustic mind does not seem to regard it as particularly immoral.

An illegal baby is generally accepted with simple resignation or merely a little fretful complaint even in quite decent cottages.