You'll hardly believe me when I tell you that every scrap of food I got, even the boiled egg which I ordered for breakfast, thinking it would be safe--" Miss King had heard all about the paraffin oil before.

She had indeed heard about it more than once.

She did not want to hear of it again, because she feared that a repetition of the story might put her uncle into another bad temper.
"I can't understand it," she said.

"How any one could be so careless as--" "It wasn't carelessness," said the judge.

"If it had been I might have given the place another trial.