he loves her but because he wants to look like a nice guy the young woman's doctor gives him quite a lecture. kitty yes that's all very well but there are 2 kinds of pity one the weak minded sentimental sort is really just the heart's in patients to rid itself as quickly as possible of the painful experience of being moved by another person suffering it is not a case of real sympathy of feeling with the sufferer but a way of defending yourself against the sufferers. but the 2nd kind of pity real pity requires self-sacrifice and clearly and so on isn't up for that his fiance aided finds out he's denied their engagement in public she's humiliated and the story ends in tragedy jewish austrian author stefan spike was one of the world's most popular writers in the 1920 s. and thirty's he and his wife escaped to the nazis 1st to england then to brazil but they were so convinced that european civilization was doomed that the couple took