I trust it is not the eye.

Look to it quickly, sweet mother.

It was a nasty blow." "It is not of serious nature," muttered Edred through his wrappings; "it will be well right quickly." The mother hurried the two boys into a small room of her own where she kept medicaments of various kinds, and where all wounds of a trifling character were washed and dressed.

Julian hurried to fetch her all she needed; and just at that moment Sir Oliver came hastily in looking for his wife.
"How now, Edred ?" he exclaimed.

"Hast thou been in the wars again ?" for Edred was something famed for getting hard knocks and ugly scratches in his mimic encounters with his more skilled and dexterous brothers.