I have to send in the completed notes not later than this day week, and it will be quite impossible.

I am dreadfully disappointed." By this time I had unwound the voluminous wrappings and exposed the injury--a deep gash in the palm that must have narrowly missed a good-sized artery.

Obviously the hand would be useless for fully a week.
"I suppose," she said, "you couldn't patch it up so that I could write with it ?" I shook my head.
"No, Miss Bellingham.

I shall have to put it on a splint.

We can't run any risks with a deep wound like this." "Then I shall have to give up the commission, and I don't know how my client will get the work done in the time.