On the Monday, she was deserted; and she snatched the knife from the table while the engraver was at work.
She only knew that Zebedee had added a new sting to the insult inflicted on her when he arrived at the lodgings with his wife.

Her duties as cook kept her in the kitchen--and Zebedee never discovered that she was in the house.

I still remember the last lines of her confession: "The devil entered into me when I tried their door, on my way up to bed, and found it unlocked, and listened a while, and peeped in.

I saw them by the dying light of the candle--one asleep on the bed, the other asleep by the fireside.

I had the knife in my hand, and the thought came to me to do it, so that they might hang _her_ for the murder.