But Adèle assures him she made no account of his "_contes de fée_." For the present it is enough to know that in the main and ostensibly the Fairy Janet Eyre was Charlotte Brontë's adaptation of Montagu's Fairy Janet, the queen-elf of the Malhamdale fairies, said to frequent the enchanted land round the source of the Aire. The fairy idea, Charlotte discovered, served well to give a certain gallantry to Rochester's bestowing of epithets. These the reader may have interest in finding in _Jane Eyre_. For instance, when Jane, returning from her visit to a dead relative, informs Rochester, he says:-- "A true _Janian_ reply! [italics mine]. Good angels be my guard! She comes from the other world--from the abode of people who are dead, and tells me so when she meets me alone here in the gloaming! If I dared, I'd touch you, to see if you are substance or shadow, you elf!--but I'd as soon offer to take hold of a blue _ignis-fatuus_ light in the marsh." A few lines lower Rochester asks:-- "Tell me, now, fairy as you are--can't you give a charm?" And then farther down: "Pass, Janet: go up home and stay your weary little wandering feet at a friend's threshold." When Rochester's bed is in flames, and he awakes to find Janet has thrown water upon it, he demands:-- "In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?" And so I might continue. It is observable Charlotte Brontë never allows Rochester to call Jane Eyre "Janet" and "fairy" in the same breath. She permits the use of Janet, however, when the fairy notion is concealed, as when Rochester says: "Just put your hand in mine, Janet, that I may have the evidence of touch as well as sight, to prove you are near me." Certain it is that in Charlotte Brontë's inmost heart her autobiographical self was called Janet Aire.[32]