But when I am but sick and I might infect they have no remedy but their absence and my isolation.It is an excuse to them that are great and pretend and yet are loath to come. It is an inhibition to those who would truly come, because they may be made carriers of the infection to others by their coming. [5]
They visit me and I attempt to keep
A social smile upon my face. Even here
Some ceremony is required
Elizabeth Jennings: Sequence in hospital V The Visitors
