Painfully observed novella on the permeation of guilt after betrayal. The main character sells the letters of a dead woman who loved him, in order to get the money to marry the woman that he himself loves. The exposure of the letter-writer, though, the opening up of her to public scrutiny and sympathy, is a betrayal that he can't forgive himself for making. The effects of it on his life and marriage are profound. It's not a very happy read but it is an absorbing one, and the emotional resonance of it is extremely finely judged. Really excellently written, I was transfixed.