Light On Dark Water

An anecdote from the Caryll Houselander biography I've been reading. I always wondered if this wouldn't be the case:

…in Lourdes they witnessed the cure of a five-year-old boy who, as a baby, had been kicked in the face by a horse, disfigured and blinded…. Iris remembers the moment when the child received his sight: never having seen–as far as he could remember–he screamed with terror….

And then later he would have had to learn that he was disfigured, and to live with that.