What if a former caprice (a freak very possible to a nature so sudden and headstrong as his) has delivered him into her power, and she now exercises over his actions a secret influence, the result of his own indiscretion, which he cannot shake off, and dare not disregard?"
¿Quién sabe si algún antiguo capricho, muy posible en un carácter tan impetuoso y terco como el de Rochester, le tiene a merced de ella y hace que esa mujer influya en su vida?»