What did she say to that?—­She said she was very glad she was not below stairs, for she would have been shocked to have seen her poor Dame so ill.

As you have lived servant in the house, how did you observe Miss Blandy behave towards her father, and in what manner did she use to talk of him, three or four months before his death?—­Sometimes she would talk very affectionately, and sometimes but middling.

What do you mean by “middling"?—­Sometimes she would say he was an old villain for using an only child in such a manner.

Did she wish him to live?—­Sometimes she wished for him long life, sometimes for his death.

When she wished for his death, in what manner did she express herself?—­She often said she was very awkward, and that if he was dead she would go to Scotland and live with Lady Cranstoun.

Did she ever say how long she thought her father might live?—­Sometimes she would say, for his constitution, he might live these twenty years; sometimes she would say he looked ill and poorly.

Do you remember when Dr. Addington was sent for on the Saturday?—­I do.

Had Miss Blandy used to go into her father’s room after that time?—­She did as often as she pleased till Sunday night; then Mr. Norton took Miss Blandy downstairs and desired me not to let anybody go into the room except myself to wait on him.

Did she come in afterwards?—­She came into the room on Monday morning, soon after Mr. Norton came in, or with him.  I went in about ten o’clock again.

What conversation passed between Miss Blandy and her father?—­She fell down on her knees, and said to him, “Banish me, or send me to any remote part of the world; do what you please, so you forgive me; and as to Mr. Cranstoun, I will never see him, speak to him, nor write to him more so long as I live, so you will forgive me.”

What answer did he make?—­He said, “I forgive thee, my dear, and I hope God will forgive thee; but thee shouldst have considered better than to have attempted anything against thy father; thee shouldst have considered I was thy own father.”

What said she to this?—­She answered, “Sir, as for your illness, I am entirely innocent.”  I said, “Madam, I believe you must not say you are entirely innocent, for the powder that was taken out of the water gruel, and the paper of powder that was taken out of the fire, are now in such hands that they must be publicly produced.”  I told her I believed I had one dose prepared for my master in a dish of tea about six weeks ago.

Did you tell her this before her father?—­I did.

What answer did she make?—­She said, “I have put no powder into tea.  I have put powder into water gruel, and if you are injured I am entirely innocent, for it was given me with another intent.”

What said Mr. Blandy to this?—­My master turned himself in his bed and said to her, “Oh, such a villain! come to my house, ate of the best, and drank of the best that my house could afford, to take away my life and ruin my daughter.”