'Are you hurt ?' he said.
She murmured an incoherent expression, and tried to smile; saying, with a fitful aversion of her face, 'I am only frightened.

Put me down, do put me down!' 'But you can't walk,' said Knight.
'You don't know that; how can you?
I am only frightened, I tell you,' she answered petulantly, and raised her hand to her forehead.

Knight then saw that she was bleeding from a severe cut in her wrist, apparently where it had descended upon a salient corner of the lead-work.

Elfride, too, seemed to perceive and feel this now for the first time, and for a minute nearly lost consciousness again.

Knight rapidly bound his handkerchief round the place, and to add to the complication, the thundercloud he had been watching began to shed some heavy drops of rain.