Although it comes more to light once the villain allows the two officers into the house as the three of them sit right over where the old man's body was hidden. While the officers talk amiably, the man writhes in anguish thinking that the policeman's complacency is just a mockery while the man sits there feeling the dead old man's heartbeat getting louder and louder (Guilt in " The Tell-Tale Heart"). As the beat gets louder and louder, it drives the narrator to madness over his guilt of killing the old man. Therefore, with the stronger heartbeat the man believes the officers can hear him and as he can no longer feel the heartbeat the narrator confesses to the crime of killing the old man (“Explanation of: 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan