Q. She wanted you to make reparation; in other words, to marry her?
A. Yes.
Q. And you refused?
A. Yes.
Q. It was on this occasion she produced the poison first?
A. Yes. She told me she had taken it from my desk, and would poison
herself if I did not marry her; she changed her mind, however, and
went away.
Q. Did you know what became of her?
A. Yes; I heard she went on the stage with M. Wopples.
Q. Did she take the poison with her?
A. Yes.
Q. How do you know she took the poison with her?
A. Because next time I saw her it was still in her possession.
Q. That was at Mr Meddlechip's ball?
A. Yes.
Q. On the night of the commission of the crime?
A. Yes.
Q. What made her take it to the ball?
A. Rather a difficult question to answer. She heard rumours that I
was to marry Mrs Villiers, and even though I denied it declined to
believe me; she then produced the poison, and said she would take
it.
Q. Where did this conversation take place?
A. In the conservatory.
Q. What did you do when she threatened to take the poison?
A. I tried to take it from her.
Q. Did you succeed?
A. No; she threw it out of the door.
Q. Then when she left Mr Meddlechip's house to come home she had no
poison with her?
A. I don't think so.
Q. Did she pick the bottle up again after she threw it out?
A. No, because I went back to the ball-room with her; then I came
out myself to look for the bottle, but it was gone.
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