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Following Malfit's arrest and trial, Walton examines the doctor's ledgers and realized that his wife and many of her friends are listed as having received ' personal services.

' He returns home, furious, to find them lunching at his home.

He banishes his wife's friends, saying ' I should bring you to trial for manslaughter!

' and confronts his wife, who is overcome with remorse.

As the years pass, the couple must contend with a lonely, childless life, full of longing for the family they might have had.