“What tale do you like best to hear?”
“Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme – courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe – marriage.”
“And do you like that monotonous theme?”
“Positively, I don’t care about it: it is nothing to me.”
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 19. The old gypsy woman (Rochester in disguise) and Jane discuss courtship and marriage. Rochester is trying to manipulate and draw Jane out and admit that she loves him. Jane is in love with her employer Rochester, but she doesn’t believe there is any future in it.