Prostitutes, thieves, girls who ‘overlaid’ their babies, abortionists who stuck their knitting needles into something vital – did they really need to be here?

The walls were of native greystone in its natural roughness; all over the front and one angle the American ivy climbed and waved, mounting to the tower; while at the back, the closer clinging Irish ivy covered the little apse, and creeping round the corner, was advancing to the windows, and promising to case the first one in a loving frame of its own.

The girl who had zoophobia didn't like animals, domestic or wild.

Physick is either curative or preventive.