The words she used were firmly parts of his human vocabulary and Smith did as she ordered, emotion shaking him.  This brother wanted him to place his whole body in the water of life.  No such honor had ever come to him; to the best of his knowledge and belief no one had ever before been offered such a holy privilege.  Yet he had begun to understand that these others did have greater acquaintance with the stuff of life... a fact not yet grokked but which he had to accept.