比克斯比夫妇住在纽约市一个小公寓里。比克斯比先生是位牙医,收入一般。比克斯比夫人精力充沛,她每月一次登上火车去探望巴尔的摩的老姨,而且总是在星期五下午。她在老姨家住一晚,第二天返回纽约为丈夫烧晚饭。比克斯比先生知道妻子很爱她老姨,剥夺她们每月一次见面的快乐是不近人情的。然而,后来她老姨成了比克斯比夫人偷情的借口。第三者是一个上校。上校极富有,他没有妻子和家人,只有几个谨慎忠实的仆人。 Bixby couple living in a small apartment in New York City. Mr. Bixby is a dentist and has average income. Mrs. Bixby is energetic, and she once a month boarded a train to visit Baltimore’s aunt, and always on Friday afternoon. She spent one night in her aunt’s home and returned to New York the next day to cook her husband’s supper. Mr. Bixby knows that his wife loves her aunt very much, and that depriving them of the pleasure of meeting once a month is unacceptable. However, her old aunt later became an excuse to befriends Mrs. Bixby. The third person is a colonel. Colonel was very rich, he had no wife and family, only a few cautious and faithful servants.