She began to cut up the seams of the sleeves.
'I cannot move my right arm,' he said. 'I suppose there is some breakage there.'
'Yes,' she said gravely, 'I can feel a bone is broken.'
'If that be all it does not matter,' he said more cheerfully, 'but I want to say to you, Honor, something whilst no one is by.'
'What is it?'
'I have done very wrong in many ways. I have been a fool, and I shall never be anything else unless you——'
'Never mind that now,' she hastily interrupted him. 'We must think only at present of your aching joints and broken bones.'
Then Oliver Luxmore's voice was heard calling, and asking what was the matter? Who were in the house? He had been roused from his sleep and was alarmed. Kate ran up the stairs to pacify him, and when he knew the circumstances he hastily dressed.
An altercation broke out at the well. There was not room for all to get at the water. One came running up with streaming face to Honor, 'Am I clean?' he asked. 'How is Larry? Not so bad hurt after all, is he?' Then he went up the steps into the cottage to consult his fellows as to the condition of his face, and to wipe it.
Honor removed the coat in pieces.