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Alspaugh on a Bed of Pain.
This is the very ecstacy of love, Whose violent property foredoes itself.
And leads the will to desperate undertakings As often as any passion under Heaven That does afflict our natures .-- Hamlet Endurance is made possible by reason of the element of divisibility.
Metaphysical mathematicians imagine that there is possibly a "fourth dimension," by the existence of which many hitherto inexplicable phenomena may be explained.

They think that probably this fourth dimension is SUCCESSION OF TIME.
So endurance of unendurable things is explainable on the ground that but a small portion of them has to be endured in any given space of time.
It is the old fable of the clock, whose pendulum and wheels stopped one day, appalled by the discovery that they would have to move and tick over three million times a year for many wearisome years, but resumed work again when reminded that they would only have to tick ONCE each second.
So it was with Rachel Bond.
The unendurable whole of a month's or a week's experience was endurable when divided in detail and spread over the hours and days.
She was a woman--young and high-natured.
Being a woman she had a martyr-joy in affliction that comes in the guise of duty.

Young, she enjoyed the usefulness and importance attached to her work in the hospital.

High-natured, she felt a keen satisfaction in triumphing over daily difficulties and obstacles, even though these were mainly her own feelings.
Though months had gone by it seemed as if no amount of habituation could dull the edge of the sickening disgust which continually assailed her sense and womanly instincts.