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...st. In the last paragraph of the story Mr. Duffy does the same thing. He is shocked, devastated and left with feelings of guilt due to Mrs. Sinico's death. He spends his evening go back over their relationship and realizes how difficult and lonely her life had been. He begins to feel guilty again. Walking toward the train and hearing and seeing it only brings her death into a clearer reality. He is overcome with emotion of all kind and can not deal so he turns away. Earlier he could feel her presence. "She seemed to be near him in the darkness. . .he seemed to feel her voice touch his ear, her hand touch his."(128) Now there was nothing. He could not feel or hear her. She was gone. I think that two things could be going on here. One is that he does this to himself. It i...