... looks perfectly corresponding to the title --- a painful case, both for Mrs. Sinico and Mr. Duffy. Yet after a scrupulous analysis, I believe the whole narration, elevated by the title, to be an irony. I want to start from talking about Mrs. Sinico's death. When I read the story for the first time, I inclined to agree that Mr. Duffy was the one to blame for this ... an indirect murderer by saying "Why had he withheld life from her? Why had he sentenced her to death?", for he had broken her heart four years ago. Superficially, all of these emotions were in harmony with the reality. Howev...

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