An Accident (n.) was only the seeming cause when N. damaged the lady's keepsake by shutting a drawer too hastily — he felt guilty, knowing what symptomatic acts mean; he loved her but balked at marriage.
An Accident (n.) forced chance to mete out a punishment that fitted the crime: called a tart for dancing the can-can, the young wife jumped from the carriage next day and broke her leg.
An Accident (n.) can be an unconscious attempt at suicide: the rejected recruit, jilted by a girl who left for America, 'played' with a revolver held in his left hand against his left temple.
An Accident (n.) looks like chance to the outsider; the one who knows the intimate details suspects the unconscious intention behind it.
An Accident (n.) can stand in for an illness: a cured patient denied success kept spraining ankles and catching colds until she gave up trying.
An Accident (n.) is rarer than we think: many serious accidents reveal the subject's own will at work, and the line between chance and self-destruction blurs.