Lucy Heizen is tired of fighting herself. She’s afraid she’ll shoot her own husband—the man turned out to be quite unpleasant, and she only found out after the wedding. And Lucy seems to have found a way to overpower her desire: she just needs to tell someone about it! Nero Wolfe is chosen as the listener. Lucy tells Wolfe that with the revolver she brought, she will no longer be able to shoot her husband. At that very moment, Archie Goodwin turns on the radio and hears that Barry Heizen has been killed by a shot in the back.