"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. If I decide now on taking a new lover, he
must have three very rare qualities: he must be confiding,
submissive, and discreet."

"Well, I will be all that you wish."

"We shall see."

"When shall we see?"

"Later on."