Henry Rider Haggard. Cleopatra (№ 175547)

Bad thou, Harmachis, for all his learning and wisdom, know how great the devotion of the female heart, if you believe that it is capable of loving when he changed the appearance of the beloved: even the terrible change which exposed him to death, powerless to kill love. Know also, o learned doctor that I am one of those women who, loving once, love to the last breath, and if their love does not meet with response, carry your virginity to the grave.