"Eh! How do I know? Everyone—the servants, the doctor."
"No danger. And suppose they did suspect?"
"They would make examinations, Bertha; they would make a minute scrutiny."
She gave a smile of the most perfect security.
"They might examine and experiment as much as they pleased, they would find nothing. Do you think I am such a fool as to use arsenic?"
"For Heaven's sake, hush!"
"I have procured one of those poisons which are as yet unknown, and which defy all analysis; one of which many doctors—and learned ones, too—could not even tell the symptoms!"
"But where did you get this—this—"
He dared not say, "poison."
"Who gave you that?" resumed he.