It's too silly.

Just to think that Blanche has had the cheek to want to lay the blame of it on me! I said to her: 'Did I tell him to steal ?' Don't you think one can ask a man for money without urging him to commit crime?
If he had said to me, 'I've got nothing left,' I should have said to him, 'All right, let's part.' And the matter wouldn't have gone further." "Just so," said the aunt gravely "When men are obstinate about a thing, so much the worse for them!" "But as to the merry little finish up, oh, that was awfully smart!" continued Nana.

"It appears to have been terrible enough to give you the shudders! He sent everybody away and boxed himself up in the place with a lot of petroleum.

And it blazed! You should have seen it! Just think, a great big affair, almost all made of wood and stuffed with hay and straw! The flames simply towered up, and the finest part of the business was that the horses didn't want to be roasted.

They could be heard plunging, throwing themselves against the doors, crying aloud just like human beings.