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A nervous bridegroom’s wedding-night embarrassment sends him into Paris in search of a drastic remedy.
A dying woman hires an advocate to find the son who vanished after discovering the secret at the center of her household.
A novice lawyer asks a jury to see murder not as a mystery of evidence, but as the final consequence of one man’s blind reverence.
At her deathbed, a devoted younger sister asks forgiveness for the secret that has shaped both women’s lives.
A grieving lover hides in a cemetery overnight, where the dead begin correcting the respectable lies carved above them.
On her first trip to Paris, a newlywed becomes alarmed when her husband does not rejoin her after boarding an omnibus.
On a storm-lashed Norman night, a fisherman’s friend keeps filling his glass while someone waits at the drunkard’s home.
A contented clerk dismisses his beloved wife’s glittering jewels as paste until widowhood forces him to have one valued.
A landowner’s annual hunting visit exposes a gamekeeper’s private crisis, then turns into a night of fire, flight, and irreversible violence.
A devoted widower pours all his love into the son his wife left behind, until an angry servant voices what the whole town knows.
Two homesick Breton soldiers share every Sunday—until a cowgirl’s kindness divides them.
After burying his young wife, a colonel returns home to a letter in which she explains the hidden coercion behind her death.
A lonely woman adopts an orphan for love, then begins to fear the silent young man growing up inside her house.
A sheltered young wife befriends the woman named in an anonymous warning about her husband—and trusts them both.
A late-night walk with a nervous pedlar leads a young oarsman into a poor household where each sound suggests the wrong kind of danger.
A stolen farm rabbit sends two pleased policemen after a suspect whose hiding place exposes more than one rural offense.
A confident Parisian explains how two carefully scheduled affairs collapsed through a silent exchange of pins in his bedroom.
A smug husband decides he would recognize any sign of adultery and devises a test that may prove more than he wants to know.
A suitor under constant observation begins a secret affair, then mistakes the wrong woman at a château window.
A hunter’s letter about woodcock season turns to a rural killing and the local idea of honor that judged it.
An ironmaster invites his wife’s lover on a midnight tour of the furnaces, where every display of heat carries a threat.
A woman in a remote Klondike cabin waits for Dave Walsh, and a visitor's guide knows why he has not come.
On the anniversary of Parnell’s death, campaign workers shelter from the rain and argue over Irish politics.
Two Dublin men arrange a meeting with a servant, and one spends the evening waiting for news.
