The girl’s dead now… She knew she was dying when she gave me this. A very strange girl, very sweet – very!
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 3. In his first conversation with Blanche, Mitch speaks about the silver cigarette case she has admired, giving to him by a dying girl. It has the inscription from a Browning poem, "And if God choose, I shall but love thee better – after – death!" Already Mitch and Blanche have a connection, both have suffered the pain of loving a loved one.