`` What will those Huns do next ? '' she demanded . `` Coming over here and burning our Parliament building ! Did anyone ever hear of such an outrage ? '' `` We do n't know that the Germans are responsible for this , '' said the doctor -- much as if he felt quite sure they were . `` Fires do start without their agency sometimes . And Uncle Mark MacAllister 's barn was burnt last week . You can hardly accuse the Germans of that , Susan . '' `` Indeed , Dr. dear , I do not know . '' Susan nodded slowly and portentously . `` Whiskers-on-the-moon was there that very day . The fire broke out half an hour after he was gone . So much is a fact -- but I shall not accuse a Presbyterian elder of burning anybody 's barn until I have proof . However , everybody knows , Dr. dear , that both Uncle Mark 's boys have enlisted , and that Uncle Mark himself makes speeches at all the recruiting meetings . So no doubt Germany is anxious to get square with him . '' `` I could never speak at a recruiting meeting , '' said Cousin Sophia solemnly . `` I could never reconcile it to my conscience to ask another woman 's son to go , to murder and be murdered . '' `` Could you not ? '' said Susan . `` Well , Sophia Crawford , I felt as if I could ask anyone to go when I read last night that there were no children under eight years of age left alive in Poland .
Think of that , Sophia Crawford '' -- Susan shook a floury finger XXXXX Sophia -- `` not -- one -- child -- under -- eight -- years -- of -- age ! ''
So after at for out over that to until with