"I mean, for the poor chaps who might have profited by such clever bandaging ....

Yes, that's a very dull and heavy compliment.

I know it.

But--there's a lot of gratitude behind it.

You've made this throbbing old head of mine feel ever so much better, Miss Standish." Milo was looking bewilderedly from one to the other, as if trying to understand how this ill-clad man chanced to be on such terms of acquaintanceship with his fastidious little sister.