Whitefoot The Wood Mouse in "Whitefoot Is Hurt"

The hurts that hardest are to bear
Come from those for whom we care.
- Whitefoot.

Whitefoot was hurt. Yes, sir, Whitefoot was hurt. He was very much hurt. It wasn't a bodily hurt; it was an inside hurt. It was a hurt that made his heart ache. And to make it worse, he couldn't understand it at all. One evening he had been met at the little round doorway by little Mrs. Whitefoot.