Master's out for half an hour, and I told her I wasn't allowed to sell poison to strangers in his absence.

She laughed in a queer way, and said she would come back in half an hour.

If she expects master to serve her, I think she'll be disappointed.

It's a case of suicide, sir, if ever there was one yet." These words added immeasurably to the sudden interest in the woman which Isaac had felt at the first sight of her face.

After he had got the medicine-bottle filled, he looked about anxiously for her as soon as he was out in the street.