"Really true ?" "I swear it." "Well, if you will promise to do everything I tell you, without a word, without an opinion, without a question, perhaps I will say yes." "I will do everything that you wish!" "But I forewarn you I must be free to do as I please, without giving you the slightest details what I do.

I have long wished for a young lover, who should be young and not self-willed, loving without distrust, loved without claiming the right to it.

I have never found one.

Men, instead of being satisfied in obtaining for a long time what they scarcely hoped to obtain once, exact from their mistresses a full account of the present, the past, and even the future.

As they get accustomed to her, they want to rule her, and the more one gives them the more exacting they become.