Summary

On February 3rd, Jim asks his pregnant wife to do the shopping before nightfall. He takes a heavy couch and blocks his wife's entrance to the house. Then, he enters the kitchen, turns on the oven and asphyxiates himself with its emissions. Upon his wife's return, she asks a neighbor to help her get the door open. When they enter, he lights a match which sets off an explosion. Police arrive along with Sister St. Saviour of a local convent. Jim's death is ruled a suicide. Sister St. Saviour comforts Annie, Jim's wife. She learns that Annie purchased a plot in Calvary, but because of the suicide, his body could not be interred in hallowed ground. Annie tells Sister St. Saviour that Jim had lost his job at the BRT train, that they had let him go. Annie would stay with...