"Pray what is it for?"
"For you. Soap is good for burns. Will you let me take your hand, please?"
Gerald put the wounded member behind her. "Thank you. I neither require nor desire assistance."
"Pardon me, you do require it, and if you refuse to see the doctor—"
"Is that any reason why I should resort to you—and kitchen soap?"
"I grant it is a very homely remedy, Miss Vernor, but it is an excellent one and the only one I know."
"I daresay. It is one more than I know of."
"You will not try it?"
"No."
"Perhaps you are afraid of the pain attending the dressing?"