A happily married housewife, Mary Maloney, is six months pregnant and is waiting for her husband to come home from work. When he arrives, to her horror, he wants to get a divorce. Stunned, she takes a leg of lamb from the freezer, telling him there is lamb for dinner. He stands with his back to her, and tells her he is going out. She hits him over the head with the leg of lamb and kills him. Then she puts the lamb in the oven and turns it on, calms down and goes to a shop to buy vegetables. When she returns, she cries over her husband’s body and calls the police. The police search the flat for a murder weapon until late at night. When they are tired and hungry, Mary offers them the lamb for dinner.
The story is short and simple, but has an amusing twist at the end of it. Also, Mary is an unexpected character. At the beginning of the story, the couple seem to love each other, but the wife is betrayed and left by the man she trusts. And, the pregnant woman moves slowly, but she has the strength to kill her man. While she is sobbing, she waits for an opportunity to tell the police to eat the leg of lamb, the weapon. At the end of the story, she sniggers because her improvised audacious plan has worked.
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