My Mortal Enemy

"Sometimes, when I have watched the bright beginning of a love story, when I have seen a common feeling exalted into beauty by imagination, generosity, and the flaming courage of youth, I have heard again that strange complaint breathed by a dying woman into the stillness of night, like a confession of the soul:''Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy."My Mortal Enemy is the eighth n...