(if I have lost it,) I care for none of 'em_.'[2] Let us see what this letter, written eight months before Charlotte left Bruxelles, tells us about the altered facts of the relationships between herself and the Directress and Director of the School. First, it is no longer Monsieur and Madame Heger who are the only people Charlotte cares about in the establishment, _but it is only the goodwill of M. Heger that she would grieve to lose_. And Madame Heger, who so kindly invited her to consider the family sitting-room hers, now takes no notice of her, and, Charlotte knows it, has taken an aversion to her. And when M. Heger says, 'Don't you think, "Mees Charlotte," who is lonely without her sister Emily, should be taken more notice of?' Madame Heger replies coldly: '_If "Mees" is lonely, it is her own fault. Why does she not make friends with her compeers, Mesdemoiselles Blanche, Sophie and Haussé?_ They are of her rank; they follow the same profession; no, this young Englishwoman is full of the pride and narrowness of her race! She is without _bienveillance_: she esteems herself better than others, she makes her own unhappiness; _and it is not for her good to single her out amongst the other excellent under-mistresses as we have done_. Let her make herself friends amongst them: _let her learn to be amiable_.' And M. Heger, who thinks there is something true in this, because his unalterable opinion is that it belongs to the English character, and to the Protestant creed, to be proud, narrow, unamiable and without benevolence, lectures Charlotte in this sense. Here are the facts of the situation in May 1843. Now what has happened in these few months to so change the relationships between Charlotte and Madame Heger, and to render Monsieur Heger--_under Madame's influence_--less friendly and helpful than he had formerly been, in his efforts to encourage the studies, and brighten by gifts of books, and talks about them, the solitude of the English teacher? It is not very difficult to discover the cause of the change, if only critics with psychological insight would employ this quality, not to fabricate problems out of false impressions, but to penetrate the true significance of the evidence that lies open to one, of the actual circumstances and facts.