Adele was not easy to teach that day; she could not apply: she kept running to the door and looking over the banisters to see if she could get a glimpse of Mr. Rochester; then she coined pretexts to go downstairs, in order, as I shrewdly suspected, to visit the library, where I knew she was not wanted; then, when I got a little angry, and made her sit still, she continued to talk incessantly of her "ami, Monsieur Edouard Fairfax _de_ Rochester," as she dubbed him (I had not before heard his prenomens), and to conjecture what presents he had brought her: for it appears he had intimated the night before, that when his luggage came from Millcote, there would be found amongst it a little box in whose contents she had an interest.
Elle trouvait toujours des prétextes pour descendre; elle désirait probablement entrer dans la bibliothèque, où l'on n'avait nul besoin d'elle; lorsque je me fâchais et que je la forçais à rester tranquille, elle se mettait à me parler de son ami, M. Édouard Fairfax de Rochester, ainsi qu'elle l'appelait (c'était la première fois que j'entendais tous ses prénoms); elle se demandait quel cadeau il pouvait lui avoir apporté. Il parait que, le soir précédent, M. Rochester lui avait annoncé une petite boîte dont le contenu l'intéresserait beaucoup et qui devait arriver de Millcote en même temps que les bagages.