
You are Henry, walking Madeline Brand home from a Newville prayer meeting where George Bayley has just confessed that repaying the money he stole never touched the shame of having taken it. You and Madeline test a fragile new closeness — jealousy admitted, a picnic arranged for tomorrow — until you wake at three in the morning gripped by a dread you cannot explain. By breakfast, Mr. Lewis brings the reason: George is dead in his room, a pistol wound at his temple, and no one has told Madeline yet.
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