What is the significance of

Jane’s role as governess?

The crimson curtain hung before the arch: slight

as the separation this drapery formed from the

party in the adjoining salon, they spoke in so low a

key that nothing of their conversation could be

distinguished…

“Why, I suppose you have a governess for

[Adèle]: I saw a person with her just now – is she

gone? Oh, no! there she still is behind the window-

curtain. You pay her of course.”