But you'd better be truthfull Was it a bullet ?" "Shrapnel." "And the treatment ?" "Rest, and the tablets in my bag." "Right--I'll get them." It was quite like old hospital times.

The sofa was hard and the pillows knobby.

But he had lain upon worse.

Li Ho was not more unhandy than many an orderly.

And the tablets, quickly and neatly administered by Miss Farr, brought something of relief.
Not until she saw the strain within his eyes relax did his self-appointed nurse pass sentence.
"You certainly can't move until you are better," she said.