Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

CHAPTER XXXII.

THE FIRST LETTER.

Where, it becomes time to inquire, was Paulina Mary? How fared my
intercourse with the sumptuous Hotel Crecy? That intercourse had, for
an interval, been suspended by absence; M. and Miss de Bassompierre
had been travelling, dividing some weeks between the provinces and
capital of France. Chance apprised me of their return very shortly
after it took place.