When to reconsider
Still reading Jane Eyre, but getting near the end.
I think that the following, as a response to a marriage proposal, is probably somewhere in the all-time top ten hints that perhaps the proposer ought to back off:
I wish I could make you see how much my mind is at this moment like a rayless dungeon, with one shrinking fear fettered in its depths—the fear of being persuaded by you to attempt what I cannot accomplish!
