It suited him. His clouded eyes wandered across the shelves where bottles of medicines stood precisely arranged, row after row after row. Progress was evident everywhere. A spoon of this in the morning, a pinch of that before bed. So, too, must we carefully measure our actions and our words.
Small gestures grow quickly into large events.
It is no easy thing, this creating. Even now the world is still in the beginning. And now the grandchild of his old friend and adversary, the Apter, was to marry. Still, it was not only for a wedding that so many would travel so far. Everyone was drawn into the fold.