"Softly up--and softly down--and tempting me to take off the cover all the time! Why don't I get rid of it ?" That question set her thinking of Carmina's guardian.
If Mr.Null was right, in a day or two Mrs.Gallilee might come to the house.

After the lawyers had threatened Teresa with the prospect of separation from Carmina, she had opened the packing-case, for the first time since she had left Rome--intending to sort her husband's papers as a means of relief from her own thoughts.

In this way, she had discovered the canister.

The sight of the deadly powder had tempted her.

There were the horrid means of setting Mrs.Gallilee's authority at defiance! Some women in her place, would use them.