He thought, “She has no idea what she is talking about!” He felt painfully angry, but instantly helpless. She had kept her visitor back all this time because she was waiting for him to return. He could see that, and the girl must have guessed it long before.
A doctor. She had come to see her? Why, she probably did not even have the right to treat patients yet, she had only been allowed to observe, but her chosen vocation was to be healing, saving people, and children at that, children who were helpless and incapable of thinking about how to save themselves. Sasha believed saving people meant fighting for them. Perhaps it was a faith you could not shake off, even though it is so easy, not just to doubt, but to renounce faith. Perhaps it was this faith which, like when you get drawn into an
