Richard replied, "Not yet Mary, but it will be soon." A lie perhaps but he didn't have the heart to tell her the truth. He wasn't sure he could get it out of her without killing her and so was going for the short term solution first. He held the gauze against her tightly as he waited for the hemostatic compound stopped the bleeding.  He smiled down at her when he was done and said, "It will be alright Mary, I promise." About five minutes later the bleeding stopped, more or less, and he tended to her other injuries from the limited supplies of the first aid kit. A bit of neosporin here. A bandaid there.