In your case the tourniquet kept the poison from getting very far into your system.

If you hadn't thought of that it might have gone very hard with you." "That rope around my leg wouldn't have done me a bit of good though, ma'am, if I hadn't stumbled onto your cabin.

I don't know when seein' a woman has pleased me more." She smiled enigmatically, her eyelashes flickering slightly.

But she did not answer.
Until noon she sewed, and he lay lazily back in the chair, watching her sometimes, sometimes looking at the country around him.

They talked very little.