Crossword-Solution: VERONAL 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The first announcement of her death appeared in an evening paper, stating the cause to be an accidental overdose of veronal taken to procure sleep, and Miss Leigh, seeing the paragraph by merest chance, gave a shocked exclamation-- "Innocent! My dear!--how dreadful! That poor Lady Blythe we saw the other night is dead!" The girl was standing by the tea-table just pouring out a cup of tea for Miss Leigh--she started so nervously that the cup almost fell from her hand.

You know I don't mean to say anything that will reflect on your specialty, but you never did see a case of only nerves put a healthy young girl in bed and keep her there suffering so that I've had to give her aspirin a hundred times and even morphin by hypodermic to get her quiet, and off and on for five years she's had ten, and sometimes fifteen grains of veronal at midnight, nights when she couldn't get to sleep.

After the first week the aspirin and the veronal gave out and there was no "earthly chance" of getting more.

This is not my first Russian life, you know!" "Probably not; but you've had some more balanced intervening ones, or I should have found you dead with veronal, or some other filthy thing before this, with your highly strung nerves! I am not really alarmed about you though, Stépan--you are fundamentally sane." "I am glad you think that--very few English understand us--" "Because you don't understand yourselves.

Only, for the love of Heaven, Freddy, before you let Rod go out of the house, give him a dose of veronal and pack him off to a quiet room up-stairs to sleep around the clock! The way he looks now, he's a proclamation of calamity across the street!" She wasn't at all disturbed by the outburst this provoked from Rodney.