"I had asked him to tell me what my illness had been, what I had been suffering from. He said he would tell me. This was before."
Now again he looked at her.
She formed "Yes" with her lips.
"When we were out here after dinner, I asked him again to tell me. I had had your telegram then."
She nodded.
"He knew you were coming back a day sooner than we had expected."
She nodded again.
"And he told me. I am going to tell you what he said. He said that I had been poisoned"—her hand twitched beneath his—"by a preparation of lead, administered in small doses through a long period of time."
"Poisoned!"
"Yes."