The sailor showed Iris how to fasten a bandage by twisting the muslin round the upper part of his boot.

For the first time she saw the cut made by the axe.
"Did--the thing--grip you there ?" she nervously inquired.
"There, and elsewhere.

All over at once, it felt like.

The beast attacked me with five arms." She shuddered.

"I don't know how you could fight it," she said.