In Howie's troubled mind did he believe himself the coward? If so, did that assumption contribute to his suicidal destruction of his Grasso?
I pondered the known facts. We don't even know it was that fateful night, do we? A child cries in her sleep, any night, for any number of reasons. A young man cowers and cries, perhaps in memory long after his sister is gone. A noise outside? The night is filled with sounds. We don't even know if John Luke Grasso was Annie Abbott's killer
The End.