But what was already in his system was enough.

It was evident that we had seriously under-estimated the lethal dose.

As to your father, Maisie, you have done me an injustice.

You have always thought that I killed him." "Proceed!" said she.
"I speak now from the brink of the grave, and I tell you that I did not.

His heart was always weak, and it broke down under the strain.
Indirectly I was the cause--I do not seek to excuse anything; but it was the sorrow and the shame that killed him.