“His wife had said: ‘If you don’t give her up I’ll throw myself from the roof.’ He had not given her up, and his wife had thrown herself from the roof.”
If these opening lines don’t make you want to read on, I can’t help you.
First published in Human Nature, D. Appleton and Company, 1933 and variously collected including in The Collected Stories 1911–1937, Library of America, 2001
A Personal Anthology 