" Christian was not talking at all. He was reading aloud.
"I explained to her that I had no parents. She inquired how long they had been dead; then how old I was, what was my name, whether I could read, write, and sew a little; then she touched my cheek gently with her forefinger, and saying 'She hoped I should be a good child,' dismissed me along with Miss Miller."
He was reading Jane Eyre to her! "

― Harper St. George , The Devil and the Heiress (The Gilded Age Heiresses, #2)