" That [never leaving home] is an undertaking which I have not asked of you and a promise which I refuse to make you!' said the young girl, haughtily. 'I am mistress of my own actions, M de Chagny: you have no right to control them; and I will beg you to desist henceforth. As to what I have done during the last fortnight, there is only one man in the world who has the right to demand an account of me: my husband! Well, I have no husband and I never mean to marry! "

― Gaston Leroux , The Phantom of the Opera