She did have consumption, poor thing.

Everybody thought she'd die of it, but she didn't.

She got up in the night to take some medicine and she took the wrong kind--toothache lotion it was and awful powerful--and it ate right through to her diagram.

She didn't live long afterwards, poor soul." No one said anything for a moment after this tragic recital.

Then Captain Bangs observed cheerfully: "Well, I guess Miss Howes ain't likely to drink any toothache lotion." Hannah nodded sedately.