Joly is still working while the Harrys argue. "Here, Harry, we'll mend your jaw first, all right? Take this and bite like--" Joly makes a face to demonstrate, and checks a screen-- "Right,that's it. Now you'll really have to not talk; keep your jaw set like that until I tell you."
The banter seems fairly normal to Joly! Right, there's obviously history there. But Harry's given him no indication that Monmouth is a danger, and surely he would?
...Or maybe it's warning enough that Monmouth doesn't know about Feuilly, when Harry so obviously keeps close company with. Given his own guesses about just how close that company is, and some of the things he's kept secret himself in the past, Joly's inclined to assume Harry has his reasons for it.
"Feuilly's a dear friend, also from Paris. He's one of the best and bravest men." So fair warning if you were leading to some sort of strange mockery of Feuilly, Hal.
"But Paris knew little of the medicine available here, I'm truly sorry to say." Really, it's maddening. "Our school was one of the best, but even so-- I suspect what I learned there had much in common with the treatments you know from your own time." And hadn't it driven him mad to know it, in his life in Paris.
But here-- here, he has the bone-setter out, and he's already carefully setting it to mending the crack in Harry's jaw. "So you know I was a doctor-- what's your life on the other side of the Door?" Presumably some sort of knight-type person, if Harry knows him? But Milliways can make for unusual acquaintances.
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The banter seems fairly normal to Joly! Right, there's obviously history there. But Harry's given him no indication that Monmouth is a danger, and surely he would?
...Or maybe it's warning enough that Monmouth doesn't know about Feuilly, when Harry so obviously keeps close company with. Given his own guesses about just how close that company is, and some of the things he's kept secret himself in the past, Joly's inclined to assume Harry has his reasons for it.
"Feuilly's a dear friend, also from Paris. He's one of the best and bravest men." So fair warning if you were leading to some sort of strange mockery of Feuilly, Hal.
"But Paris knew little of the medicine available here, I'm truly sorry to say." Really, it's maddening. "Our school was one of the best, but even so-- I suspect what I learned there had much in common with the treatments you know from your own time." And hadn't it driven him mad to know it, in his life in Paris.
But here-- here, he has the bone-setter out, and he's already carefully setting it to mending the crack in Harry's jaw. "So you know I was a doctor-- what's your life on the other side of the Door?" Presumably some sort of knight-type person, if Harry knows him? But Milliways can make for unusual acquaintances.