The House of the Whispering Pines

Let me have / A dram of poison; such soon speeding geer / As will disperse itself through all the veins, / That the life-weary taker may fall dead. / Come, bitter conduct, come unsavoury guide! / Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on / The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark. / "Romeo and Juliet"

"I have not finished," were the first words we heard, when order was restored, and we were all in a condition to listen again.