Place a pound weight on the palm of your hand, and endeavor to keep that hand extended, for, say five minutes.
Can you do it?
You think you can, that is if you have never tried it.
Try it now.
You will not be able to do it.
Long before the five minutes have expired your arm will be a pathway for a succession of spasms of pain such as you have never felt before.
All that you can voluntarily endure, quadrupled and more, Helen was forced to pass through because of the strained position of her arms.
It was terrible.
The pains that shot through her arms were frightful for a while, and then the intensity diminished and her arms became numb and felt as if dead.
She could no longer feel the cords so tightly fastened to her wrists.