Read the epitaphs of mr. and mrs. purkapile from the spoon river anthology and answer the question that follows. mrs. purkapile he ran away and was gone for a year. when he came home he told me the silly story of being kidnapped by pirates on lake michigan and kept in chains so he could not write me. i pretended to believe it, though i knew very well what he was doing, and that he met the milliner, mrs. williams, now and then when she went to the city to buy goods, as she said. but a promise is a promise and marriage is marriage, and out of respect for my own character i refused to be drawn into a divorce by the scheme of a husband who had merely grown tired of his marital vow and duty. mr. purkapile she loved me. oh! how she loved me i never had a chance to escape from the day she first saw me. but then after we were married i t