The Husband
In a provincial town, a woman attends a dance teeming with officers and recaptures her youth, her dreams, and her former beauty.
Her husband, a miserable tax-collector cannot stand idly by while his wife is transforming herself. He tells her to come home or else. She reluctantly leaves the dance and with it her dreams and beauty; instead she is filled with disgust for her husband and her life.
This satisfies her husband but only to a degree. He wishes he could go back to the dance and make all those others who dare to enjoy life feel the emptiness of his existence.
Misery loves company but hates intruders.
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