"Miss Ingram took a book, leant back in her chair, and so declined further conversation. I watched her for nearly half an hour; during all that time she never turned a page, and her face grew momently darker, more dissatisfied, and more sourly expressive of disappointment. She had obviously not heard anything to her advantage; and it seemed ot me, from her prolonged fit of gloom and taciturnity, that she herself, notwithstanding her professed indifference, attached undue importance to whatever revelations had been made her."
One of my favorite passages from "Jane Eyre" (chapter 18) don't ask me why. Perhaps because it pronounces the beginning of the end of the Rochester/Ingram charade. :)
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