I shall keep my gauze.

Some day when we are very old people and very old friends I may then be permitted to bandage your hands.

At present, however, the risk is too great, eh?
I am so inexperience.

I might by accident tie your hands in my clumsiness, and zat--that would make so much trouble for Miss Clinton to untie zem,--yes ?" Now there was mockery in her eyes.

His face hardened.
"I must be on my way," he said curtly.