If that's the case, he would be silently glad that he came in to this arena: this was already on the verge of more than an old nerdy man can take.

"If you wait, you might--I hate to say--leave a blood trail that would lead someone right to you." As someone who was highly invested in finding some place to hide, this would be a very bad thing. Surely she was thinking the same, right?

"Mrs Murphy, now is perhaps not the best time for that." Because he heard the timbre of her voice, and knew exactly what that was from. Knew it so well, in fact, that he found it best to spend the next few minutes bent over her arm, cleaning the wound and avoiding eye-contact.