What happens to the courtier in The Lady or the Tiger?

No on knows what happens to the man in this story. Even at his deathbed, Frank Stockton would not tell his wife who came out of the door.

However, i have came up with my own theory that the princess chooses the tiger to kill him.

Look at the title of this story: The Lady or the Tiger

Now look at the title backwards: regit eht ro ydal eht (look at it and try to sound the Words out . kind of sounds like "regret the royal", doesn't it?). Regret the royal...well why would you ever want to regret royalty? Maybe because you fall in love with it, then it turns on you. Also, the title backwards does not spell "royal" out perfectly, there is a D stuck in between the Y and A. And what about those last three letters from "the"? Well lets combine these letters: deth . Death. Death would mean that this princess would have had to choose the tiger, instead of the lady, to kill her lover.

But who knows, there are probably millions of other theories out there . That's just mine.