Mrs. Foster stops at the door and listens inside. She hears a noise and decides to leave her husband behind. The noise he hears in the house is that of the blocked elevator. She left her dead husband in an elevator and left for Paris. It is twisted when the narrator explains that "once a week, on Tuesday, she writes a letter to her husband, the latter pleasant and talkative-" (9). She knows that her husband is dead and continues to write to him. He could do it as an alibi. In the letter he writes, “'Take your meals regularly, dear, though I fear you do not when I am not with you'” (9). He's twisted because he's obviously not eating, he's dead. She killed her husband. Mrs. Foster from the beginning of the story was a loving and patient wife; now she had left him a dead believer in an elevator. When Mrs. Foster returns from her trip she makes a phone call. He calls the elevator company and tells them “'see, my legs aren't that good for climbing a lot of stairs'” (10). She calls the elevator company and makes sure they hurry so she won't be the one to find her husband's body. Now she's sick and twisted, instead of realizing she's unhappy and leaving him, she essentially kills