in the last hour she had brought the dowager ( who would not leave her bed ) a collection of letters , tucked at the bottom of a locked drawer ; a glass of warm milk ; a glass of brandy ; another miniature of her long-dead son john ; a handkerchief that clearly possessed some sort of sentimental value ; and another glass of brandy , to replace the one the dowager had knocked over while anxiously directing grace to fetch the handkerchief .