Wife in Thorpe’s unpublished story

And the more nervous you got, the more you laughed . . . right up to the point where the hero goes home from the party given in his honor and kills his wife and baby daughter.” “What’s the plot?” the agent asked. “No,” the editor said, “that doesn’t matter.

The unnamed wife killed by the protagonist of Thorpe’s story, as summarized by Wilson. She is an embedded fictional character, not Jane Thorpe.