She shall do nothing save by her own free will.

You do not imagine I would try to take her away unless she were willing ?" He sat down again beside me, and affectionately laid one hand on my shoulder.
"Women, Nino, are women," I remarked.
"Unless they are angels," he assented.
"Keep the angels for Paradise, and beware of taking them into consideration in this working-day world.

I have often told you, my boy, that I am older than you." "As if I doubted that!" he laughed.
"Very well.

I know something about women.

A hundred women will tell you that they are ready to flee with you; but not more than one in the hundred will really leave everything and follow you to the end of the world when the moment comes for running away.