He had heard the trap snap shut; having never set one before, he did not know what sound to expect, but there was something about this particular snap that let him know what it was, and as he jolted from half-sleep with acid in his throat, he was aware of something having ended.

After the hanging, or rather the attempted hanging, he thought he should at least talk to her about it. At any rate, he thought that she should talk to him about it: that would be the decent thing to do.