1/11/12 Lamb to the Slaughter

The story starts out in a home, it's clean and there are various drinks and glasses sitting out. A Woman named Mary Maloney is preoccupying herself while waiting for her husband to come home. The man walks in, his wife makes drinks for both of them, and he sits down at the table, and she sits at the other end sewing. After a bit, the man talks to his wife about divorce and she is very surprised. She is in a sort of trance, and she gets a lamb eg to make dinner, when she comes up hes standing there and tells her not to bother making dinner, and she hits him in the back of the head and he hits the floor. The man is dead, and she suddenly comes out of her trance, and thinks of the penalties of murder. After, that, she goes to the store to get the rest of the dinner. she gets peas and potatoes, as well as some cheese cake. Whne she gets home she calls the police. She offers the police dinner and they eat the only evidence against her killing her husband.