the truth. The two women have been involved in a battle for the past twenty years, whether they were aware of it or not. I believe the only thing that got these two women back together was them running into each other after their husbands deaths, back in Rome. If it werent for that coincidence there never would have been any more animosity towards each other. While discussing the beauty of the landscape in Rome, Mrs. Ansley states, After all, its still the most beautiful view in the world. It always will be, to me (255). It is then, after Mrs. Ansley stresses the me in her statement, that Mrs. Slade finally, after all these years unravels the whole incident pertaining to Mrs. Ansleys case of roman fever. Mrs. Slade tells her life-long friend that it was she that sent her the note from Mr. Slade, asking her to meet him at the Colosseum. Mrs. Slade was jealous and wanted to keep Mr. Slade no matter what the cost, so she sent the letter to get her friend out of the way for a few weeksIt was like a shot to the heart for Mrs. Ansley that a friend would do that. According to Mrs. Slade, I did it as a sort of jokeat the idea that you were waiting around there in the dark(263). But, the joke was on Mrs. Slade because it was then that Mrs. Ansley revealed her that indeed she did not wait, she had responded to the note and Mr. Slade did in fact meet her at the Colosseum. At the end of the story, Mrs. Slade realizes that her plan all those years ago failed, and that Mr. Slade and Mrs. Ansley did meet that night, because Mrs. Ansley answered the letter, but Mrs. Slade still felt she ultimately won the war. Mrs. Slade had thought she won the war because as she says on page 263, I oughtnt begrudge it to you, I suppose. At the end of all these years. After all, I had everything; I had him for twenty-five years. And you had nothing but that one letter that he didnt write (263). It was then that Mrs. Ansley finally decided to shut Mrs. ...
