“Did deceased take anything to drink with his supper?”
“Yes. He had a glass of chablis. I fetched the bottle and the glass from the dining room and poured out the wine for him.”
“Did you meet anybody in the dining room or coming or going?”
“No, I met nobody.”
“Can you think of any way in which any poison could have got into the omelette or into the wine?”
“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 me
