She can no longer feed herself or use a toilet; her life is restricted so that she may not even walk around her own house at will, and indeed requires assistance with such simple acts as sitting and climbing steps.
Restrained as she was, the embrace could not be returned.
But, oddest of all, was a large, vaguely pear-shaped leather bag, hung from a special hook in the roof of the wagon.
I shall send Miss Braithwaite out to purchase one.