My Mortal Enemy

"e;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.' "e;My Mortal Enemy is the eig...