The Well of Loneliness

There were no farewells to be said in Paris except those to Buisson and Mademoiselle Duphot.

Mademoiselle Duphot shed a few tears: "I find you only to lose you, Stévenne. Ah, but how many friends will be parted, perhaps forever, by this terrible war -- and yet what else could we do? We are blameless!"