"How is that ?" he asked.
"That is a _great_ deal better." "If it hadn't been, you would have fainted again directly.

Let us see--Daisy, I think I had better cut the boot off.

You have sprained the ankle, or something, and it is swollen." Daisy said nothing, and the Captain went on very carefully and tenderly to cut the boot off.

It was a very necessary proceeding.

The foot was terribly swollen already.