"But wouldn't you like to set me down while you go and fetch my sandals?
They are over there on the rocks.

It would be a pity for them to get washed away, and I might manage to walk with them on." He had brought her safely over the most difficult part of the way.

He seated her at once upon a flat rock, and stooped to assure himself as to the success of his bandage.
"It gives you not so much of pain, no ?" he asked.
"It scarcely hurts at all," she assured him.

"You will be quick now, won't you, because I ought to be getting back.

If you see Cinders, you might bring him too." "Cinders ?" he questioned, pausing.
"My dog," she explained.