The Message (1819)

A coach collapses and kills a young man. As he is dieing the young man orders the narrator to inform his lover of his death. The narrator delivers the news of her lover's death to the countess, but at the very end of the story, with the young lover's body still warm (so to speak), in a very subtle, brief and somewhat ambiguous aside, the narrator himself seems to be made the subject of the countess's amorous intentions. Grief and love are apparently very short lived and fickle.

(Very Short, Le Message, msage10.txt)