Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Good morning, Grace," I said. "Has anything happened here? I
thought I heard the servants all talking together a while ago."

"Only master had been reading in his bed last night; he fell asleep
with his candle lit, and the curtains got on fire; but, fortunately,
he awoke before the bed-clothes or the wood-work caught, and
contrived to quench the flames with the water in the ewer."