If the king had any sense, he would not simply kill him.
He didn't mean to simply kill her, she now knew.
Why would they not simply kill someone who was, for whatever reasons, such a threat to them?
Or she could simply kill herself and let Nick go on without her.
"Because if it were true, I would have simply killed you in order to escape."
In the wrong mix, the chemical simply killed the subject.
The easiest way would be to simply kill the man.
She could solve quite a few problems by simply killing the other woman.
On top of all the accidents that happen out in the field, we simply kill each other off.
Oh, perhaps one could simply kill her with an English gun, at a distance- but that was not the point!