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But to
return to practical details. He has had a fully trained male nurse
and his own valet to wait on him. He absolutely refused one of our
London hospital nurses, who might have brought a little gentle
comfort and womanly sympathy to his sick-room. He said he could not
stand being touched by a woman; so there it remained. A competent
man was found instead. But we can now dispense with him, and I have
insisted upon sending up a lady nurse of my own choosing; not so
much to wait on him, or do any of a sick-nurse's ordinary duties--
his own man can do these, and he seems a capable fellow--but to sit
with him, read to him, attend to his correspondence,--there are
piles of unopened letters he ought to hear,--in fact help him to
take up life again in his blindness. It will need training; it will
require tact; and this afternoon I engaged exactly the right person.
She is a gentlewoman by birth, has nursed for me before, and is well
up in the special knowledge of mental things which this case
requires.


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