Mrs Bampen's face twisted in horror and Arabella who saw the apples rotten was also shocked at the scene.
No matter how boorish and lazy Mrs Bampen is, she wasn't someone who would foolishly sell apples that were so obviously rotten and bruised. But Cassius's hands were holding proof of the said rotten apples an not only the ones he had touched turned rotten but the rest on the basket that Mrs Bampen had offered earlier.
"H- How could this be?! There is no way! No Way!" Mrs Bampen pulled a fruit knife to her hand, cutting all her apples in horror as she saw each one of them turn greenish black in spots and even some was half rotten or entirely, as if it was brushed with a layer of poison. "I really just brought this from the farm! It's just cut this morning... they couldn't be rotten already- I would have noticed if it is!"
That was true, Arabella doubted Mrs Bampen was so blind not to notice this.