Isn't that a funny idea, Mum ?" "It is a terrible idea," and, a little to her own surprise, tears rose to Janet Tosswill's eyes.

Timmy, looking up into her face, felt his heart swell with anger against the person who was causing his mother to look as she was looking now.
He moved away a little bit, as if aware that what he was going to say would not meet with her approval, and then he said in a peculiar voice, a defiant, obstinate voice which she knew well: "I do wish that Mrs.
Crofton would die--I do hate her so!" Janet Tosswill looked straight into her little son's face.

She felt that she had perhaps made a mistake in treating Timmy as if he were grown up.
"My dear," she said very gravely, "remember the Bible says--'Thou shalt not kill.'" "Of course I know _that_,"-- he spoke with a good deal of scorn.

"Of course I want her to die a _natural_ death.".