Why am I always at war with myself Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart. (Charles Dickens)

Why am I always at war with myself Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart.

Charles Dickens

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