This reminder of his betrayal by Lola infuriates Alfio anew.

He rushes upon his wife to kill her, but Santuzza, who hates him as the slayer of her lover, throws herself between and plunges her dagger in Alfio's heart.

Having thus taken revenge for Turiddu's death, Santuzza dies out of hand, Lola, as an inferior character, falls in a faint, and Massimo makes an end of the delectable story by going away from there to parts unknown.
In Cilea's "Tilda" a street singer seeks to avenge her wrongs upon a faithless lover.

She bribes a jailor to connive at the escape of a robber whom he is leading to capital punishment.

This robber she elects to be the instrument of her vengeance.