简爱 Jane14 - Chapter 3 My First Impressions of School

　　"You are very young to travel alone. Are you tired?" she asked, putting her hand on my shoulder kindly.

　　"Yes, Miss Temple, I am a little tired," I said.

　　"How old are you, and what is your name?"

　　"I'm Jane Eyre, ma'am, and I'm ten years old."

　　"Well, Jane, I hope you will be a good child, and work hard," she said, touching my cheek gently with her finger.

　　Another teacher named Miss Miller took me to the schoolroom. In this large room there were about eighty girls who sat doing their homework. The oldest girls looked about twenty years old. I sat on a bench near the door and watched them quietly.