A guilty courtesy

A sudden thought struck him, as he would ​​the unexpected blow from which we can not defend, and suddenly he felt guilty of being the penalty for a crime committed by someone else who, through his person, would have allowed pay off that debt. So, he thought, that being guilty for an individual can be useful to the redemption of another individual, and the slap initially suffered from his thought turned itself into a consolation that lightened his soul. In this way raised by guilt his hands shook with more force to the neck of his wife, who in the last moments of life that the absence of air allowed her stared at him surprised, but grateful at the same time, he thought, for the courtesy that he was doing to his wife...