"The Short, Happy Life Of Francis Macomber"

In this short story, a man, Francis Macomber, and his wife are being toured through a safari to hunt. Their tourguide, Wilson, is a very experienced, handsome man. In fact, Margot, Mr. Macomber's wife, has a "thing" for Wilson. Everyone knows, however, that Mr. and Mrs. Macomber would never seperate becuase Francis has the money and Margot has the looks.
At the beginning of the adventure, Francis and Wilson are hunting a lion, when Francis chickens out and runs away in terror. Wilson, in turn, stands up to the lion and kills it himself. Francis had showed himself, very publicly, to be a coward. Margot is very embarrassed and shows her feelings very conceitedly. She will not drop the subject and continues to replay the day, showing Francis to be even more of a coward. She is prooving to him where his place in their relationship is. Then, she disappears is the middle of the night. When she comes back to her tent, Francis asks her where she had been. She tells him she had just gone to get some fresh air, but he knows she was secretly with Wilson because she had previous history of doing so.
The next day, Francis wants to hunt more. They decide to try and hunt some buffalo. When they arrive to the site, they see three very large-sized buffalo. Francis gets a huge burst of energy and shoots the first two, and the third one gets away. They get into their vehicle and chase after it. When they get close enough, they get it down, too. Francis feels like a new person. He feels like he is on top of the world and bigger than anything. Margot however, sees that it was very unfair to chase the poor thing with a vehicle.
All of a sudden, a worker of Wilson's tells them that the first buffalo was not completely dead, and it had gotten up and went into the brush. They go back and wait for the buffalo to calm down.
Finally, they move closer and the buffalo charges. Gun fires are coming from every direction and the buffalo hits the ground. Then, in a split second, Margot raises her gun and aims in right at Francis's skull. She fires.
"Why didn't you just poison him? That's what they do in England," Wilson says. Margot continuously tells him to shut up, but Wilson refuses. Finally, she says please and he cooperates.