Mr Linehan said: "There is no doubt that at the beginning she was very fond of him." But his fecklessness and drinking led her to cool their relationship, Mr Linehan said, and on the day of the alleged murder, she was believed to have told him that they were finished. Nobody knew precisely what occurred, Mr Linehan told the jury. "You will have to consider whether he forced her to take it or you may come to the conclusion that he tricked her. Perhaps it was a last toast before parting. Before she knew it she had swallowed enough to kill her."