I call it a tragedy conventionally.

Seriously, of course, it was commonplace enough." Agatha stopped and faced him.

"What do you mean by what you said just now?
You said that I was the immediate cause of the tragedy, and you say that you were talking of Henrietta's--of Henrietta.

I had nothing to do with her illness." Trefusis looked at her as if considering whether he would go any further.

Then, watching her with the curiosity of a vivisector, he said: "Strange to say, Agatha," (she shrank proudly at the word), "Henrietta might have been alive now but for you.