All these months I have begged and entreated the people to keep away from those houses where there was illness.

It was their only hope.

And now that they begin to understand that, I cannot bring the healthy to nurse the sick, even if they were willing to come.
They will take no precautions as we do.

It is not safe; I have tried it." She did not look at Caius, she was looking at the blue that hung over the sea which lay beneath them, but the weariness of a long long effort was in her tone.
"Could we not manage to bring them all to one house that would serve as a hospital ?" "Now that you have come, perhaps we can," she said, "but at present----" She looked helplessly at the door of the house they had left.
"At present I will nurse these children," Caius said.

"I do not need to see the others again until evening." He tied his horse in a shed, and nursed the children until the moon was bright.