“Then I will not go on that ship.”
“Yet you should give thought to the dangers that are ahead, which you may suppose less than they are. There are things that you have not seen.”
“I have seen a man thrown overboard while he yet lived, for no fault but his failing strength. Are there worse matters than that?”
“Yes. I should say there are. Yet, as I hope, they may not come in your way, if you are resolved that you will not go.”
“You asked me, when first I came, if I had any skill in the healing of wounds, and I answered yes. Was there purpose in what you asked?”
“There was purpose, but it is not a skill which can be put to use at this time. . . . As you know, we are an Order which was first of a healing kind, and all we who have taken John Baptist’s vows are of some skill in such arts,
