Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

It appeared; however, that my going depended upon Graham; he had said
he would accompany, me, and it so fell out that he was engaged all
day, and only returned home at dusk. Then ensued a little combat of
words. Mrs. Bretton and her son pressed me to remain one night more. I
could have cried, so irritated and eager was I to be gone. I longed to
leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to
descend: that is, I wished the pang over. How much I wished it, they
could not tell. On these points, mine was a state of mind out of their
experience.