“You are my little friend, are you not?”
“I like to serve you, sir, and to obey you in all that is right.”
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 20. Following the stabbing and biting attack on Richard Mason, Rochester asks Jane to stay with him and be his friend. She says that she will serve him as her master, emphasizing the class differences between them. But true to her independent and rebel nature, Jane says that she will only obey him in “all that is right,” suggesting that if he asked he to do something morally wrong she would refuse.