She mixed her flesh with the medicine but it was in vain, and he died shortly afterwards.

Overcome with grief, and without parents or children to demand her care, she determined that she would not live.

Only waiting till she had completed the arrangements for her husband's interment, she swallowed gold and powder of lead.

She handed her trousseau to her relatives to defray her funeral expenses, and made presents to the younger members of the family and the servants, after which, draped in her state robes, she sat waiting her end.

The poison began to work and soon all was over.