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A week passed, and there was no news of Mrs. Rochester. I worked hard with Adèle, and busied myself with my painting and sewing. Mrs. Fairfax said she would not be surprised if he went straight from his friends' place to London, and then to the Continent, and not show his face again at Thornfield for a whole year. After hearing that I told myself, “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield.”

Yet when, two weeks after Mr. Rochester's departure Mrs. Fairfax received a letter from him, and my calmness and self-control faded once again.

“Well, I sometimes think we are too quiet; but we will be busy enough now,” she said. “The master's coming back in three days, and not alone either,” she said. “I don't know how many of the fine people are coming with him, but he wants all the bedrooms prepared. I need to bring in extra kitchen staff. The ladies will bring their maids and the gentlemen their valets: so we will have a full house of it.”