Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad

"Fact is, my dear, I can't take you where I live. I share the room with
a friend."

He was somewhat dismayed himself. In the morning the blessed 'tecs will
be out in all the stations, no doubt. And if they once got hold of her,
for one reason or another she would be lost to him indeed.

"But you must. Don't you care for me at all--at all? What are you
thinking of?"