Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Henry Allegre had the highest opinion of your intelligence," she
said unexpectedly and with evident seriousness. "But all this is
only to tell you that when he was gone I found myself down there
unhurt, but dazed, bewildered, not sufficiently stunned. It so
happened that that creature was somewhere in the neighbourhood.
How he found out. . . But it's his business to find out things.
And he knows, too, how to worm his way in anywhere. Indeed, in the
first days he was useful and somehow he made it look as if Heaven
itself had sent him. In my distress I thought I could never
sufficiently repay. . . Well, I have been paying ever since."