The Count of Monte Cristo

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"'Woman is fickle.' said Francis I.; 'woman is like a wave of the sea,'
said Shakespeare; both the great king and the great poet ought to have
known woman's nature well."

"Woman's, yes; my mother is not woman, but a woman."

"As I am only a humble foreigner, you must pardon me if I do not
understand all the subtle refinements of your language."

"What I mean to say is, that my mother is not quick to give her
confidence, but when she does she never changes."

"Ah, yes, indeed," said Monte Cristo with a sigh; "and do you think she
is in the least interested in me?"

"I repeat it, you must really be a very strange and superior man, for my
mother is so absorbed by the interest you have excited, that when I am