So are you here alone or is there someone looking daggers at my back right now, ready to challenge me to a duel?

It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

Seven...eight...nine...
Some in the crowd shuffled for positions where they could have a better view. By now it was close to four o'clock, and the sun was setting slightly in the west. What that morning had been close to zero weather was now in the mid-forties. The dueling field, which had been sparkling with the morning frost was now dry.

A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a form of manly sport, demands a perfect singleness of intention, a homicidal austerity of mood. [The duel]

Lovers are always together in heart, mind and soul.