Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

The answer was a hurried, nervous whisper: "I tell you it was
time. I rang because I had no strength to push you away."

I suffered a moment of giddiness before the door opened, light
streamed in, and Rose entered, preceding a man in a green baize
apron whom I had never seen, carrying on an enormous tray three
Argand lamps fitted into vases of Pompeiian form. Rose distributed
them over the room. In the flood of soft light the winged youths
and the butterfly women reappeared on the panels, affected,
gorgeous, callously unconscious of anything having happened during
their absence. Rose attended to the lamp on the nearest
mantelpiece, then turned about and asked in a confident undertone.