Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"No," she said, surprised, "and yet you . . . "

"I understand," interrupted Mills. "All this is purely accidental.
You must know that I am a solitary man of books but with a secret
taste for adventure which somehow came out; surprising even me."

She listened with that enigmatic, still, under the eyelids glance,
and a friendly turn of the head.