“No. Nothing could possibly have got into the omelette. As to the wine, I poured it from the bottle into a clean glass. But the bottle was already open and had been in the cellaret since lunch.”
“Now, with regard to the medicine. Did you give deceased any on the day before his death?”
“Yes. I gave him a dose soon after I came in—about six o’clock. That was the last dose in the bottle.”
“Did you notice anything unusual about the medicine?”
“No. It was similar to what he had been taking for some days past.”
“What was the medicine like?”
“It was nearly colourless with the faintest tinge of red and smelled slightly of lavender and bitter orange.”
“Was there anything that caused you to notice particularly, on this occasion, the appearance and smell of the medicine?”
“No. I noticed the colour and the smell when I opened the bottle on the previous morning to give deceased a dose.”
“Did you examine the new bottle which had just been sent?”