Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Nobody--most certainly. You may trust me as implicitly as you did
Pere Silas. Indeed, the doctor is perhaps the safer confessor of the
two, though he has not grey hair."

"You will not laugh?"

"Perhaps I may, to do you good: but not in scorn. Lucy, I feel as a
friend towards you, though your timid nature is slow to trust."