They will not isolate the sick; they will not----" She stopped as if at a loss for a word.

She had been speaking in a voice whose music was the strain of compassion.
"In fact," said Caius, with some impatience, "they are a set of fools, and worse, for they won't take a telling.

Your duty is surely done.

They do not deserve that you should risk your life nursing them; they simply deserve to be left to suffer." She looked at him for a minute, as if earnestly trying to master a view of the case new to her.
"Yes," speaking slowly.

He saw that her hands, which were clasped in her lap, pressed themselves more closely together--"yes, that is what they deserve; but, you see, they are very ignorant.