Is the title appropriate?

The title of this story is appropriate because it describes its most important event. During a conversation about solitary confinement and the death penalty at a dinner party, a banker and a lawyer make a bet to find out which of these two forms of punishment would be the worst. The lawyer, believing that he could handle 15 years of solitary confinement, agrees to be imprisoned by the banker in return for two million roubles. This bet, therefore, sets the story's main events in motion.
What the title does not convey, however, is just how significant the bet will become. As a result of his suffering from years of solitary confinement, the lawyer becomes so disillusioned with life that he deliberately forfeits the bet by leaving his cell five minutes before the time is up.
For the banker, this is a hollow victory. He keeps his money but despises himself because he had intended to kill the lawyer before the time was up.