Then she read her letter from home again, wrote the words, "I am innocent," and told the sobbing girl to give the little note containing them to the king's mother after her own death, together with her letter from home.
After doing this she passed a wakeful night which seemed as if it would never end.

She remembered that in her box of ointments there was a specific for improving the complexion, which, if swallowed in a sufficiently large quantity, would cause death.

She had this poison brought to her, and resolved calmly and deliberately, to take her own life directly the executioner should draw near.

From that moment she took pleasure in thinking of her last hour, and said to herself: "It is true he causes my death; but he does it out of love." Then she thought she would write to him, and confess all her love.

He should not receive the letter until she was dead, that he might not think she had written it to save her life.