Adele was not easy to teach that day; she could not apply: she kept running to the door and looking over the banisters to see if she could get a glimpse of Mr. Rochester; then she coined pretexts to go downstairs, in order, as I shrewdly suspected, to visit the library, where I knew she was not wanted; then, when I got a little angry, and made her sit still, she continued to talk incessantly of her "ami, Monsieur Edouard Fairfax _de_ Rochester," as she dubbed him (I had not before heard his prenomens), and to conjecture what presents he had brought her: for it appears he had intimated the night before, that when his luggage came from Millcote, there would be found amongst it a little box in whose contents she had an interest.
Con cualquier pretexto quería salir del cuarto y bajar las escaleras, a fin, como era notorio, de presentarse en la biblioteca, donde yo sabía que su presencia no era necesaria. Cuando lograba hacerla volver a sentarse, la niña hablaba incesantemente de su «amigo Edward Fairfax de Rochester», como ella le llamaba (yo ignoré hasta entonces el nombre de pila del dueño de la casa), y se entregaba a conjeturas sobre los regalos que le habría traído, ya que él, según parecía, al ordenar que se fuese a buscar su equipaje a Millcote, había hablado de cierta cajita cuyo contenido debía de interesar mucho a la pequeña.