“Sure. I’ll go easy.”
“Better let me give it the once over again, first.”
He unwrapped the bandage and was glad to note that the swelling had subsided considerably.
“Does that hurt?” he asked as he moved the ankle a bit.
“No, not to amount to anything.”
“Then it’s not broken.”
“I didn’t think it was, but I’m sure some glad to be sure.”
Jack again bandaged it and as soon as he had finished Bob insisted on trying to stand.
“I could walk on it if I had to,” he declared after he had tested.
“Well, you don’t have to today.”