Lady, Electra, I Will Marry Her Among the Smoking Ruins of Yours

"I befriended the maid as though she were my own little one, not so many times removed. And equally, of course, lady electra noticed and misread our friendship." "When i became of more weight, when, in brief, my comely tigress was too fast bound to be dangerous, i spoke up," he writes. 'And electra grew to be jealous and to hate the small christian slave girl with all the unruly strength that marked her other passions'