My pony is tied out there to the fence . Please take him home . That is all , I think . '' `` No , it is n't all , '' said Alexander Abraham grumpily . `` Send that cat home , too . I wo n't have a cat around the place -- I 'd rather have smallpox . '' I looked Alexander Abraham over gradually , in a way I have , beginning at his feet and traveling up to his head . I took my time over it ; and then I said , very quietly . `` You may have both . Anyway , you 'll have to have William Adolphus . He is under quarantine as well as you and I. Do you suppose I am going to have my cat ranging at large through Avonlea , scattering smallpox germs among innocent people ? I 'll have to put up with that dog of yours . You will have to endure William Adolphus . '' Alexander Abraham groaned , but I could see that the way I had looked him over had chastened him considerably . The doctor drove away , and I went into the house , not choosing to linger outside and be grinned at by Thomas Wright . I hung my coat up in the hall and laid my bonnet carefully on the sitting-room table , having first dusted a clean place for it with my handkerchief . I longed to fall upon that house at once and clean it up , but I had to wait until the doctor came back with my wrapper . I could not clean house in my new suit and a silk shirtwaist . Alexander Abraham was sitting on a chair looking at me . Presently he said , `` I am NOT curious -- but will you kindly tell me why the doctor called you Peter ? ''
`` Because that is my name , I suppose , '' I answered , shaking up a cushion for William Adolphus and thereby disturbing the dust XXXXX years .
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