"This I learned from her benefactress; from the pious and charitable lady who adopted her in her orphan state, reared her as her own daughter, and whose kindness, whose generosity the unhappy girl repaid by an ingratitude so bad, so dreadful, that at last her excellent patroness was obliged to separate her from her own young ones, fearful lest her vicious example should contaminate their purity: she has sent her here to be healed, even as the Jews of old sent their diseased to the troubled pool of Bethesda; and, teachers, superintendent, I beg of you not to allow the waters to stagnate round her."
Brocklehurst concluyó: -Lo he sabido por su bienhechora, por la caritativa y compasiva mujer que recogió a esta niña cuando quedó huérfana, educándola como a sus propios hijos, y cuya generosidad y bondad han sido tan mal pagadas por esta ingrata muchacha, que dicha señora tuvo que separarla de sus hijos, a fin de que con su corrupción no contaminase la pureza de aquellas inocentes criaturas. Ha venido aquí como los antiguos judíos al Betesda, para purificarse.