I was so scared that my stomach heaved, empty as it was.
Mary didn't stay in the quilts long. She took a drink out of the water bucket and sat down by the fire and looked through the smoke at me.
She said in a low voice, "I don't know how it will be if it's poison. Just do the best you can with the girls. Because your pa will come back, you know . . . You better go to bed. I'm going to sit up.