Do you mind if I say that I prefer not to believe it ?" He accepted the reproof gracefully.
"Well, since we do happen to have met," he suggested, "might I walk with you a little way?
You see," he went on, "it's rather dull hobbling along here all alone." "Of course you may, if you like," she assented, glancing sympathetically at his stick.

"How is your leg getting on ?" "It's better--getting on finely.

So far as my leg is concerned, I believe I shall be fit to go out again within ten days.

It's my arm that bothers me a little.

One of the nerves, the doctor said, must be wrong.
I can only just lift it.