Trio

By Victoria Sackville West

So well she knew them both! yet as she came

Into the room, and heard their speech

Of tragic meshes knotted with her name,

And saw them, foes, but meeting each with each

Closer than friends, souls bared through enmity,

Beneath their startled gaze she thought that she

Broke as the stranger on their conference,

And stole abashed from thence.