Upon the ending of the novel, I sat and contemplated. I wondered, am I too serious of a person by feeling disturbed? Why couldn’t I simply laugh along at the wild adventures of friends? And why was it that I felt a sympathetic camaraderie with the villain of the story? Milady killed and deceived, seduced and destroyed. Yet, somewhere in the back of my mind I thought, what other choice did she have? Just like Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, Milady takes matters in