She licked and sealed the envelope, sight unseen, not knowing that, at that very moment, she was also sealing her fate, and then... ..well... as with all cyanide poisonings, the first thing she felt was a shortness of breath - what Mr Hammond mistook for nervousness.

Then she licked his face.

Although, for the record, on one occasion, she licked her thumb to remove raspberry jelly from the corner of my mouth.