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"While they were looking at Constance in the courtroom I had been lying on the cot at the orphanage, staring at the ceiling, wishing they were all dead, waiting for Constance to come and take me home" (Jackson 56).

This quote could be showing that Constance and Mary Katherine both made up a plan to kill the family so they could live by themselves in a home instead of the orphanage. They left one member alive so it wouldn't be very suspicious and because they were still young so they might not have been able to take care of themselves.

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"It would have been far more suitable in the rarebit, Constance. Odd that the point was never brought out at the time. Arsenic is tasteless, you know, although I swear rarebit is not. Where am I going?" (Jackson 50)

This shows that the Blackwood family has many suspicions about Constance and the things that she has done, and Uncle Julian seems to know very well what Constance was planning to do and what chemicals to use, which shows that Constance had a plan to kill her entire family, and did, but failed to kill Uncle Julian.

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" Each year Constance and Uncle Julian and I had jam or preserve pickle that Constance had made, but we never touched what belonged to others; Constance said it would kill us if we ate it." (Jackson 42)

This quote makes you think if Constance has poised the food that she planned to give to others. And that is why she told both her uncle and sister that it would kill them. Uncle Julian and Katherine don't touch the jam because they have been warned that it will kill them. If she killed people once she could do it again but this time in jam or a preserve pickle.

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"Doesn't look like a murderess, does she?" pg 55
People recognize Constance from the court and are pointing her out. This is a clear indication and it shows how many of the town folk think she is guilty.

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"She told the police that it was all her fault"-(Jackson 37)
Constance would not have told the police that it was her fault if it hadn't been. She would not have put herself into that situation if she did not feel guilty. Prior to that comment, she told them that her family deserved to die.

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"It was Constance who saw them dying around her like flies- I do beg your pardon- and never called a doctor until it was too late. She washed the sugar bowl" (Jackson 37).
This shows that Constance was meaning to poison all of them and that she didn't call the doctor on purpose because she wanted them dead.

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"Is it still in use? you are wondering; has it been cleaned? you may very well ask; was it thoroughly washed?  I can reassure you at once.  My niece Constance washed it before the doctor or the police had come, and you will allow that it was not a felicitous moment to wash a sugar bowl" (Jackson 36)
This shows how something was up with the sugar bowl and Constance want to get rid of something.

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"I took up Mrs. Wright's teacup and her rum cake and brought them over to the tea tray. (Jackson 39)
Since Constance was the one that made the rum cake this could be a possibility that she could've been the one to poison it.

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"Well, of course, there is the root of our trouble. Certainly she should not have been doing the cooking if her intention was to destroy all of us with poison; we would have been blindly unselfish to encourage her to cook under such circumstances. But she was acquitted. Not only of the deed, but for the intention"(Jackson 36).

This shows that since Constance was cooking, she could have the chance on poisoning the food because we don't know what exactly could've been in her food as ingredients.

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""It could be said that there is danger everywhere," Uncle Julian said. "Danger of poison certainty. My niece can tell you of the most unlikely perils-garden plants more deadly than snakes and simple herbs that slash like knives through the lining of your belly, madam. My niece-"" (Jackson 30)

This proves that Constance is guilty because she has a lot of experience and knowledge of poison within plants and throughout the story it mentions that she has a garden. Meaning she could be planting those plants then using them and putting the poison into her tea.

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"The other dishes used at dinner were still on the table, but my niece took the sugar bowl to the kitchen, emptied it, and scrubbed thoroughly with boiling water. It was a curious act."  "There was a spider in it," Constance said to the teapot."(Jackson 36).

This evidence proves that Constance is guilty of the crime because why else would someone thoroughly and very carefully scrub something when there was something little in it like a spider it just doesn't really make sense and seems unnecessary to clean something very well when there was something in it that wasn't that unsanitary. She probably scrubbed it really thoroughly to get rid of the evidence of the poison (arsenic) that she put in the sugar bowl. I believe that was just an excuse to get away with the poisoning of her family because she seems to be really guilty just by using that pathetic excuse and also she was looking at the teapot and wasn't making eye contact with Mrs. Wright when she was talking to her which was weird because when you talk to someone and you're not looking at them, that is another sign of being guilty especially if you seem distracted and aren't making eye contact with somebody you are speaking to.