I let you go without saying a word. I begin to feel the first effects of the poison. The nurse is asleep at the foot of my bed. I will die. I have seen the doctor.
Nobody suspects anything.
I must open the bottle which contains the larger quantity. To make sure of my courage, I have forbidden the nurse to send for you. She has just gone downstairs by my orders. I am free to get the poison out of my dressing-case. Ten minutes to ten.