She was _happy_--that's what she looked and what she was." She stopped a moment here and looked at the man.

Then she decided to go on because she saw chances that he might, to a certain degree, understand.
"When she told me that he was not dead when she saw him, she said that she was not dead any more herself--that she had come alive.

If believing it will keep her feeling alive, sir, wouldn't you say it would be a help ?" The Doctor had ceased rubbing his chin but he looked deeply thoughtful.
He had several reasons for thoughtfulness in connection with the matter.
In the present whirl of strange happenings in a mad war-torn world, circumstances which would once have seemed singular seemed so no longer because nothing was any longer normal.

He realised that he had been by no means told all the details surrounding this special case, but he had understood clearly that it was of serious importance that this girlish creature's child should be preserved.

He wondered how much more the finely mannered old family nurse knew than he did.
"Her vitality must be kept up-- Nothing could be worse than inordinate grief," he said.