How did Granny know what she had come for ? Was she a real witch after all ? For a moment she wished she had n't come . Perhaps it was not right to tamper with the powers of darkness . Peggy Buchanan was notoriously unhappy . If Janet had known how to get herself away , she would have gone without asking for anything . Then a sound came from the lean-to behind the house . `` S-s-h . I hear the devil grunting like a pig , '' muttered Granny , looking very impish . But Janet smiled a little contemptuously . She knew it was a pig and no devil . Granny Thomas was only an old fraud . Her awe passed away and left her cool Sparhallow . `` Can you , '' she said with her own directness , `` make a -- a person care for another person -- care -- very much ? '' Granny removed her pipe and chuckled . `` What you want is toad ointment , '' she said . Toad ointment ! Janet shuddered . That did not sound very nice . Granny noticed the shudder .
`` Nothing like it , '' she XXXXX , nodding her crone-like old grey head .
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