QUESTION: You had these roots, this poison, a week ago Friday. What about the suicidal depression?—change your mind?
ANSWER: I don't know how the mind works.
QUESTION: Now, Miss Blake! Anybody knows if he's changed his mind.
ANSWER: Does he?
QUESTION: All right. I can assume you gave up the notion of suicide?
ANSWER: Not a notion. An uncompleted decision, perhaps. Which did lose its importance after a while.
QUESTION: Did you, or you and James Doherty acting together, intend that poison for Mrs. Doherty?
ANSWER: Must I answer that again? James Doherty knew nothing about any poison, or my possession of it. I intended it only for myself.
QUESTION: But kept it there more than a week, where I suppose anyone might have stumbled on it?
ANSWER: Not exactly. Back of a shelf. Nobody visiting me was likely to go get a drink from a back shelf without invitation.