The world breaks so many this way and the other that it can have little pleasure in gloating over such stale scenes of agony.
Besides we must not let our sympathies carry us away.

Geoffrey and Beatrice deserved all they got; they had no business to put themselves into such a position.

They had defied the customs of their world, and the world avenged itself upon them and their petty passions.

What happens to the worm that tries to burrow on the highways?
Grinding wheels and crushing feet; these are its portion.

Beatrice and Geoffrey point a moral and adorn a tale.