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mona lisa smile 'I don't want change; you know that. Take your wages.'
I declined accepting more than was my due. He scowled at first;
then, as if recollecting something, he said-
'Right, right! Better not give you all now: you would, perhaps,
stay away three months if you had fifty pounds. There are ten; is it
not plenty?'
'Yes, sir, but now you owe me five.'
'Come back for it, then; I am your banker for forty pounds.'
'Mr. Rochester, I may as well mention another matter of business to
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you while I have the opportunity.'
'Matter of business? I am curious to hear it.'
'You have as good as informed me, sir, that you are going shortly
to be married?'
'Yes; what then?'
'In that case, sir, Adele ought to go to school: I am sure you will
perceive the necessity of it.'
'To get her out of my bride's way, who might otherwise walk over
her rather too emphatically? There's sense in the suggestion; not a
doubt of it. Adele, as you say, must go to school; and you, of course,
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