Miss Havisham (revisited).

Like most women, if not all women,
Miss Havisham was looking
For a long term relationship.
She was looking for Love.
She was looking for marriage.
A spinster, left alone after a tragic event,
Her entire family lost at sea.
Yet hope came along in the person
Of the dashing cavalry captain Herbert Dinsmore.
Tall, handsome, and no fool when the scent of money
Was in the air,

It was at a ball organized by the wife of his friend
Captain Moon that he met the tall and somewhat skinny
Miss Havisham.
He knew all the moves and, after some reticences
She let herself be courted - discreetly.

Ha, but she found that she loved the attention.
He invited himself over and
She did not deny him entry
He also  found entry to her heart
And found entry to her bedroom.

There was serious talk of marriage
Plans were made
A date was set.

But on the morning of that faithful day
Captain Dinsmore had another appointment
With Destiny.
He had lost a lot of money gambling
Had also insulted the wrong people.
Thus the duel at dawn.

The bullet hit him in the heart.
The bad news hit her even harder

She never recovered from the shock
And to this day she roams the vast halls
Of her spacious residence and moans
In silence.