"Is it so bad as that? George, what was that stuff you gave us?"
"I have not said that it was anything. The--the dose was too strong."
"Was it poison?"
"Margaret!"
I took her two hands in mine. She came into my arms. I held her to my breast.
"Was it poison? If you love me half as much as I love you you will tell me, George."
"Margaret!"
"What poison was it?"
"Laudanum!"
She drew herself away from me. She looked at me with her great wide open eyes. Then her eyes were closed. Before I had the least suspicion of what was going to happen she had fallen to the ground. I knelt beside her.