u/Dangerous-Reindeer78

Here is roughly what I remember of it:

It was about the arrest of some military officer, perhaps a corporal, for the murder of a woman he was involved with. The narrator talks a lot about what a complicated case it was. At the end, according to the officer, he and the woman entered a pact where he would kill her and then he would kill himself. He kills her but can’t kill himself.

I remember the last sentences of the story being something along the lines of: “Perhaps to the Law or God I am guilty, but to her, innocent!”

I suspect it was by Turgenev, Bunin, or Chekhov, but I’m not sure about that.

I’m sorry that this isn’t much information, thank you for any help you have because this is driving me crazy!