I had to gulp again and hold the poison down, for poison it was to my child's tissues and membranes.
Looking back now, I can realise that Peter was astounded.

He half-filled a second tumbler and shoved it across the table.

Frozen with fear, in despair at the fate which had befallen me, I gulped the second glass down like the first.

This was too much for Peter.

He must share the infant prodigy he had discovered.