She lay her hand over his as it touched her arm and pressed it gently. It hadn't escaped her attention, of course, that he'd said he'd been stabbed in the stomach when he arrived and he now had stomach enough eat. Ordinarily, she'd have assumed Caroline or Kitty, but 'he' opened up several other possibilities. Since it had been a rescue and not a murder, Phryne felt questioning him could wait.

Now he'd opened the matter for discussion, however, and she felt comfortable saying, "I wasn't aware we had any doctors here. Do you mind my asking who that was?"