I would prefer not to discuss your sexual proclivities.
[Is the terse, nipping response to that. But she gives the young doctor an encouraging nod and he gets to work - first with the stinging solution, and then with the lukewarm water and cloth until the split edges of the dark skin and a majority of the dried blood has been cleaned away.
Miriam plucks the pink stained cloth back when he's finished with it, wringing it out there on the stone floor before folding and replacing it into the basket.
Next come the sturdy surgeon's needle and the coiled catgut, of course.]
no subject
[Is the terse, nipping response to that. But she gives the young doctor an encouraging nod and he gets to work - first with the stinging solution, and then with the lukewarm water and cloth until the split edges of the dark skin and a majority of the dried blood has been cleaned away.
Miriam plucks the pink stained cloth back when he's finished with it, wringing it out there on the stone floor before folding and replacing it into the basket.
Next come the sturdy surgeon's needle and the coiled catgut, of course.]