Le Dernier Voeu (The Last Vow)
"In Le Dernier Voeu ...the lonely figure of a woman, dressed in black and scarlet, stands on the edge of stone steps leading down into the water of a moat, cut off from the world, with a broken candle at her feet, and another candle clutched in her hand; there can be no sound in the vast emptiness behind her, with a distant wall cut by archways that open upon a blazing sunlight over empty stretches of sand; the woman stands proudly, so quietly erect that one can almost see the motion of her shoulders pulling her straighter, and one does see, in her face, the solemn calm of an indomitable will winning over a faint, last echo of pain."
- Ayn Rand
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