Never before had she surveyed her son-in-law with such a glance of triumph as she threw upon him now.
"You were mistaken you see, Elizabeth," said Lord Roos to his lady.
"Your mother needs no aid.

She is perfectly well." "Ay, well enough to confound you and all your wicked purposes, my Lord," cried Lady Lake.

"You have not accomplished my destruction, as you perceive; nor shall you accomplish your wife's destruction, though you have well-nigh succeeded.

Let it chafe you to madness to learn that I possess an antidote, which I have myself approved, and which will kill the poison circling in her veins, and give her new life." "An antidote!" exclaimed Lord Roos.

"So far from galling me to madness, the intelligence fills me with delight beyond expression.