Oh, Marilla, if you have a spark of Christian pity don't tell me that I must go down and wash the dishes after this.

I'll wash them when the minister and his wife are gone, but I cannot ever look Mrs.Allan in the face again.

Perhaps she'll think I tried to poison her.

Mrs.Lynde says she knows an orphan girl who tried to poison her benefactor.

But the liniment isn't poisonous.