What did you do with the pan?—­I carried it back again and set it down on the dresser in the kitchen; it stood there a short time, then I locked it up in the closet, and on the Thursday morning carried it to Mrs. Mounteney, and Mr. Norton came there and saw it.

Do you remember Miss Blandy saying anything to you about eating her papa’s water gruel?—­About six weeks before his death I went into the parlour.  Miss Blandy said, “Susan, what is the matter with you?  You do not look well.”  I said, “I do not know what is the matter; I am not well, but I do not know what is the matter.”  She said, “What have you ate or drank?” upon which I said, “Nothing more than the rest of the family.”  She said, “Susan, have you eaten any water gruel? for I am told water gruel hurts me, and it may hurt you.”  I said, “It cannot affect me, madam, for I have not eaten any.”

What was it Betty Binfield[11] said to you about water gruel?—­Betty Binfield said Miss Blandy asked if I had eaten any of her papa’s water gruel, saying, if I did, I might do for myself, a person of my age.

What time was this?—­I cannot say whether it was just after or just before the time she had spoken to me herself.  On the Wednesday morning, as I was coming downstairs from giving my master his physic, I met Elizabeth Binfield with the water gruel in a basin which he had left.  I said to the charwoman, Ann Emmet, “Dame, you used to be fond of water gruel; here is a very fine mess my master left last night, and I believe it will do you good.”  The woman soon sat down on a bench in the kitchen and ate some of it, I cannot say all.

[Illustration:  Miss Mary Blandy (From an Engraving by B. Cole, after a Drawing for which she sat in Oxford Castle.)]

How was she afterwards?—­She said the house smelt of physic, and everything tasted of physic; she went out, I believe into the wash-house, to reach, before she could finish it.

Did you follow her?—­No, I did not; but about twenty minutes or half an hour after that I went to the necessary house and found her there vomiting and reaching, and, as she said, purging.

How long did she abide there?—­She was there an hour and a half, during which time I went divers times to her.  At first I carried her some surfeit water; she then desired to have some fair water.  The next time I went to see how she did she said she was no better.  I desired her to come indoors, hoping she would be better by the fire.  She said she was not able to come in.  I said I would lead her in.  I did, and set her down in a chair by the fire.  She was vomiting and reaching continually.  She sat there about half an hour, or something more, during which time she grew much worse, and I thought her to be in a fit or seized with death.

Did you acquaint Miss Blandy with the illness and symptoms of this poor woman?—­I told Miss Blandy when I went into the room to dress her, about nine o’clock, that Dame (the name we used to call her by) had been very ill that morning; that she had complained that the smell of her master’s physic had made her sick; and that she had eaten nothing but a little of her master’s water gruel which he had left last night, which could not hurt her.