Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, wars. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates.
Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies.
They have been cheated and betrayed. I accepted either answer.