Quotation from: The Arrow of Gold

Written by: Joseph Conrad

She dropped the extra pillow she was carrying and then nearly fell
over it. "Oh, dear heart," she murmured, and ran off to the
kitchen.

I sank into bed as into a cloud and Therese reappeared very misty
and offering me something in a cup. I believe it was hot milk, and
after I drank it she took the cup and stood looking at me fixedly.
I managed to say with difficulty: "Go away," whereupon she
vanished as if by magic before the words were fairly out of my
mouth. Immediately afterwards the sunlight forced through the
slats of the jalousies its diffused glow, and Therese was there
again as if by magic, saying in a distant voice: "It's midday". .
. Youth will have its rights. I had slept like a stone for
seventeen hours.