That's a sick joke.

Warden, Rob and Drizin, Steven (2009) True Stories of False Confessions, →ISBN, page 28: “Anyone who knew him well would suspect he had a chemical imbalance. He had been unhappy recently. And there was a history of suicide in the family; his mother had tried to kill herself.”

veiling its enormity, and its indefensibility

Do you know that he tiffins with her three times a week, and every night, after leaving here, he finishes the evening in her society, sitting in the veranda and smoking cigarettes till all hours.