`` When I first saw you it was too late to tell you . I thought the kindest thing I could do was to hold my tongue and let you get away in happy ignorance . This will teach you to take a man 's house by storm , madam ! '' `` Now , now , do n't quarrel , my good people , '' interposed the doctor seriously -- but I saw a twinkle in his eye . `` You 'll have to spend some time together under the same roof and you wo n't improve the situation by disagreeing . You see , Peter , it was this way . Mr. Bennett was in town yesterday -- where , as you are aware , there is a bad outbreak of smallpox -- and took dinner in a boarding-house where one of the maids was ill . Last night she developed unmistakable symptoms of smallpox . The Board of Health at once got after all the people who were in the house yesterday , so far as they could locate them , and put them under quarantine . I came down here this morning and explained the matter to Mr. Bennett . I brought Jeremiah Jeffries to guard the front of the house and Mr. Bennett gave me his word of honour that he would not let anyone in by the back way while I went to get another policeman and make all the necessary arrangements . I have brought Thomas Wright and have secured the services of another man to attend to Mr. Bennett 's barn work and bring provisions to the house . Jacob Green and Cleophas Lee will watch at night . I do n't think there is much danger of Mr. Bennett 's taking the smallpox , but until we are sure you must remain here , Peter . '' While listening to the doctor I had been thinking . It was the most distressing predicament I had ever got into in my life , but there was no sense in making it worse . `` Very well , doctor , '' I said calmly . `` Yes , I was vaccinated a month ago , when the news of the smallpox first came . When you go back through Avonlea kindly go to Sarah Pye and ask her to live in my house during my absence and look after things , especially the cats . Tell her to give them new milk twice a day and a square inch of butter apiece once a week .
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