\'All the world was mad around her and she herself, agonized, took on the complexion of a mad woman; of a woman very wicked.\'In \'the saddest story I have ever heard\', a naive American abroad unfolds a devastating tale of two seemingly respectable Edwardian marriages destroyed by infidelity and lies.. \'All the world was mad around her and she herself, agonized, took on the complexion of a mad woman; of a woman very wicked.\'In \'the saddest story I have ever heard\', a naive American abroad unfolds a devastating tale of two seemingly respectable Edwardian marriages destroyed by infidelity and lies.