内容摘要 Knowing that Mrs.Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble,great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible thenews of her husband s death. It was her sister Josephine who told her, in brokensentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husbands friend Richards was there,too,near her. Itwas he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligenceof the railroad disaster was received; with Brently Maitardsname leading the list of "killed" . He had only taken the timeto assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and hadhastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearingthe sad message. She did not hear the story as many women have heard thesame, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. Shewept at once,with sudden,wild abandonment,in her sistersarms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away toher room alone. She would have no one fo...