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If it does not, as she says, "having heard nothing of what was real for listening to the visionary book, I have no answer ready." She goes on to explain that when she knows the answers, it is pure chance: she has the answers because the subject matter happens to interest her. Now, mine continually rove away: when I should be listening to Miss Scatcherd, and collecting all she says with assiduity, often I lose the very sound of her voice I fall into a sort of a dream." I observed you in your class this morning, and saw you were closely attentive: your thoughts never seemed to wander while Miss Miller explained the lesson and questioned you. "That is curious," said I: "it is easy to be careful." Jane can't understand this, but it is explained to her: Her studies suffer for it, and she is often punished in class. This desire to read is what fills Helen's waking hours. I have given you answers enough for the present now I want to read." She soon dismisses Jane's questioning: "You ask rather too many questions. Helen knows all the answers, including several obscure ones about the founding and development of the school. She has many questions, and her meeting with Helen is the first opportunity for her to ask them. Jane has just enrolled in Lowood Institution, which is a charity school for girls. Jane Eyre first meets Helen one day during recess. *Spoilers for the first section of Jane Eyre* It is my hope that this node, if it is to have any impression, convinces you to read Jane Eyre and be willing to be moved by what you find there. Though she appears but briefly in the book, she is inspiring, admirable, beautiful, and tragic. On a personal note, I am noding this because of the strong and powerful impression Helen made on me. The character is taken from Brontë's older sister Maria. Helen Burns is a character in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed.