Ten minutes past five
`` Oh , my husband , I have done the deed which will relieve you of the wife whom you hate ! I have taken the poison -- all of it that was left in the paper packet , which was the first that I found . If this is not enough to kill me , I have more left in the bottle . `` Ten minutes past five . `` You have just gone , after giving me my composing draught . My courage failed me at the sight of you . I thought to myself , ` If he look at me kindly , I will confess what I have done , and let him save my life . '