[HandyDandy]

The couple in the movie lived in a place that had gas lighting fixtures. The husband would pretend he had gone out, but he would really sneak down to the controls for the gas valves and he would make the lights flicker. Then when he “returned home” his wife would complain that the gas light fixtures were flickering again and he would tell she was losing her mind. Of course they never flickered while he was home. Everyone knows this.

[Political Junkie Too]

That is not the plot of the story. Watch the movie. It is nothing like what you wrote.

-PJ