Mind my wrist--that's broken too.

Ah!" She heard the breath whistle sharply between his lips as with the utmost care she complied with these instructions, but almost instantly he went on: "Don't be afraid of touching me--unless I'm too monstrous to touch.

But I don't believe I can walk." "I will help you," she said.

"I am very strong." "You are--wonderful," he said.
And the words comforted her subtly though she did not know exactly what he meant by them.
Thereafter they scarcely spoke at all.

By slow degrees he recovered his self-command, though she knew with only too keen a perception how intolerable was the pain that racked his whole body.