"I do，sir- I do，with my whole heart."

"Well," he said，after some minutes" silence，"it is strange; but that sentence has penetrated my breast painfully. Why? I think because you said it with such an earnest，religious energy，and because your upward gaze at me now is the very sublime of faith，truth，and devotion: it is too much as if some spirit were near me. Look wicked，Jane: as you know well how to look: coin one of your wild，shy，provoking smiles，tell me you hate me- tease me，vex me; do anything but move me: I would rather be incensed than saddened."

"I will tease you and vex you to your heart"s content，when I have finished my tale: but hear me to the end."

"I thought，Jane，you had told me all. I thought I had found the source of your melancholy in a dream."

I shook my head. "What! is there more? But I will not believe it to be anything important. I warn you of incredulity beforehand. Go on."

The disquietude of his air，the somewhat apprehensive impatience of his manner，surprised me: but I proceeded.

"I dreamt another dream，sir: that Thornfield Hall was a dreary ruin，the retreat of bats and owls. I thought that of all the stately front nothing remained but a shell-like wall，very high and very fragile-looking. I wandered，on a moonlight night，through the grass-grown enclosure within: here I stumbled over a marble hearth，and there over a fallen fragment of cornice. Wrapped up in a shawl，I still carried the unknown little child: I might not lay it down anywhere，however tired were my arms- however much its weight impeded my progress，I must retain it. I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was you; and you were departing for many years and for a distant country. I climbed the thin wall with frantic perilous haste，eager to catch one glimpse of you from the top: the stones rolled from under my feet，the ivy branches I grasped gave way，the child clung round my neck in terror，and almost strangled me; at last I gained the summit. I saw you like a speck on a white track，lessening every moment. The blast blew so strong I could not stand. I sat down on the narrow ledge; I hushed the scared infant in my lap: you turned an angle of the road: I bent forward to take a last look; the wall crumbled; I was shaken; the child rolled from my knee，I lost my balance，fell，and woke."

"Now，Jane，that is all."