She is very proud, too.

I tried to make her accept a string of pearls in Paris, just because I thought they would be becoming to her, but she absolutely refused." "Really?
I suppose you gave the pearls back to the jeweller ?" "No, I kept them.

Perhaps I shall get her to wear them some day." Folco smiled.
"You may just as well encourage her simple tastes," he said.

"Women always end by learning how to spend money, unless it is their own." Having delivered himself of this piece of wisdom Folco chose a cigar, nipped off the end of it neatly with a gold cutter, lit it and snuffed the rich smoke up his nose in a deliberate manner.
"Regina is a very remarkable woman," he said at last.

"If she had been well educated, she would make an admirable wife; and she loves you devotedly, Marcello.