The Vault at Pfaff's
Gardette, Charles D. "Five Minutes: A Parisian Sketch [translated for the Saturday Press]." New York Saturday Press, December 16, 1865, 308-310.
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract
A young man waits outside for a married woman he's having an affair with. In the five minutes she is late, he agonizes over stopping the affair, but he cannot muster up the gumption to do so.