Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

CHAPTER XXI.

REACTION.

Yet three days, and then I must go back to the _pensionnat_. I
almost numbered the moments of these days upon the clock; fain would I
have retarded their flight; but they glided by while I watched them:
they were already gone while I yet feared their departure.

"Lucy will not leave us to-day," said Mrs. Bretton, coaxingly at
breakfast; "she knows we can procure a second respite."