The End of a Love Affair (Refined)

Author: Graham Greene and Coppard
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: During World War II in London, England, writer Maurice and the wife of a civil servant, Sarah, a pair of extramarital lovers, had their romance interrupted by an incoming shell. It stunned Maurice and awakened a potential Catholic faith in Sarah. Sarah prayed to heaven: to keep away from the lover to stay away from sin, in order to save Maurice's life. Sarah left without notice, Maurice, unaware of the situation, spent two years in envy and hatred. Suspecting she had a new lover, Maurice hired a private detective to investigate. The result, from Sarah's diary, revealed she had always loved him, but only left him out of her promise and reverence for God. With remorse, he proposed to Sarah to run away and start a new life. At this time, Sarah had finally converted to Catholicism and refused him, and soon after she fell ill and passed away. God took Sarah away from Maurice, and Maurice faced the fact that her prayers after her death had been fulfilled with complex and resistant feelings.