Dangerous Liaisons, Choderlos de Laclos, André Malraux

"I hope I'll be given some credit for the adventure with little Volanges, which you seem to make so little of: as if it were nothing, in one evening, to spirit away a young girl from her beloved Lover, then to use her as much as one pleases and absolutely as one's own property, and with no more fuss; to obtain from her what one dare not even demand from all the girls whose profession it is; and all this without disturbing her in the least from her tender love... So that, after my fancy has passed, I will return her, so to speak, into the arms of her Lover, without her having noticed anything."