He'll have to be careful how he treats Simpkins when he's called in.

It won't do to make mistakes and go curing him accidentally." "I suppose," said the Major bitterly, "that you'll employ Sabina Gallagher to make the wedding-cake.

She might begin the poisoning." "Certainly not," said Meldon.

"Sabina couldn't make a wedding-cake, and in any case Simpkins won't eat enough of his own wedding-cake to do him any harm, whatever it's made of.

If you were accustomed to weddings, Major, you'd know that the whole cake is invariably eaten by the postoffice officials--a most deserving class, whom nobody wants to poison.