The String of Pearls (1850), p. 473

and involuntarily laying hold of the side of the barge, there she remained, too exhausted to cry out, until Todd was far off.
She was seen at last by a man who was at the window of a public-house, and in the course of ten minutes after Todd had began to congratulate himself upon the demise of Mrs. Lovett, she was in a warm bed at the public-house, and her clothes drying at the kitchen-fire.

MRS. LOVETT'S ESCORT TO THE GALLOWS.{Figure}

She had scarcely been for a moment at all insensible; and as she lay in bed she had a most accurate perception of all that happened. The reader may suppose that the feelings of Mrs. Lovett towards Sweeney Todd, were by no means ameliorated by the morning's proceedings.
And yet how calculating she was in her rage!