"Go and buy me a drug."
"If I go and buy her a drug, will she undress and get into bed while I am away?"
She nodded.
Calling Marthe, and taking the latch-key of the street-door, he went to his chemist's in Dover [233] Street and bought some potassium bromide and sal volatile. When he came back Marthe whispered to him:
"She sleeps. She has told me everything as I undressed her. The poor child!"