YMMV / A Romance of Two Worlds

• Les Yay: The narrator and Zara, so much that the fact that they aren't twin flames seems to modern readers like a cop-out. In Corelli's day, however, this was probably seen as a strong and devoted Pseudo-Romantic Friendship. They would certainly be considered soulmates by today's New Age standards.
  "Be my friend," she said, with a caressing inflection in her rich voice, "I have no friends of my own sex, and I wish to love you..."