Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"I don't say that. Maybe too proud, too wilful, too full of pity.
Signorino, you don't know much about women. And you may learn
something yet or you may not; but what you learn from her you will
never forget."

"Not to be held," I murmured; and she whom the quayside called
Madame Leonore closed her outstretched hand before my face and
opened it at once to show its emptiness in illustration of her
expressed opinion. Dominic never moved.