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 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, must march straight to--the devil?"