She reached out her arms and called to him.

Another step and she would have been beside him, but at the moment a slim, laughing girl darted in front of him and slipped her foot between his legs and he went down.
She heard the joyous yell and the shrill laughter as she struggled wildly to force her way to him.

And then for a moment there was a space and a man with bent body and clenched hands was rushing forward as if upon a football field, and there came a little sickening thud and then the crowd closed in again.
Her strength was gone and she could only wait.

More soldiers had come up and were using their fists freely, and gradually the crowd retired, still snarling; and they lifted him up and brought him to her.
"There's a chemist's shop in the next street.

We'd better take him there," suggested the one who had first spoken to her.