The audience, excited to the highest pitch, caught breath with malevolent delight.

But the thrills were not exhausted.

Miss Travers next told how in Dr.Wilde's study one evening she had been vexed at some slight, and at once took four pennyworth of laudanum which she had bought.

Dr.Wilde hurried her round to the house of Dr.Walsh, a physician in the neighbourhood, who gave her an antidote.

Dr.Wilde was dreadfully frightened lest something should get out....
She admitted at once that she had sometimes asked Dr.Wilde for money: she thought nothing of it as she had again and again repaid him the monies which he had lent her.
Miss Travers' examination in chief had been intensely interesting.