A request to the wardress for a glass of water was instantly complied with, and Jeanne then washed the fatal poison down.
At least I gathered as much from the alarmed expression of the wardress who accompanied him.
He asked where were the keys, and as I said in the pocket of the wardress, who slept within, he sent me there to get them.
Going out into the corridor, she attempted to press a sovereign into the wardress's hard palm.
A wardress ran up to us, saying: "I shall listen to everything you say."
