"Are you injured, Sir?" "Get away from me!" "Witch!" "What do you think of the master?" "He's very changeable" "You do not know what it is to feel jealousy, do you, Jane?" "So you have no idea what it is to love." "I took a wrong path." "I must bear the blame for continuing on it." "Sir, Mr. Rochester, sir, wake up." "For heavensake, sir, wake up!" "Jane, are you hurt" "No, sir." "But you were nearly killed in your bed." "What happened here?" "I donknow." "I heard a noise and I followed it here." "Shall I fetch Mrs. Fairfax?" "No, what can she do?" "I must fetch someone to help, sir." "No!" "Sit, Jane quietly." "Wait here for me." "Can you do that?" "Itsettled." "Itas I thought." "How, sir?" "I forgot." "Did you say you saw anything?" "Anyone?" "No, I heard a laugh." "I think it was Grace Poole, sir." "Of course, you are right." "Shea singular sort of person." "Sheoften careless and accidents happen." "Well say no more about it." "Go back to you room." "The servants will be up in an hour or two." "What, are you going without saying goodnight?" "Jane you just" "You just saved my life." "You might at least shake hands." "I knew youd do me good the first time I met you." "I knew I wouldnmind being in you debt." "There is no debt, sir." "There is no debt, sir" "Im glad I happened to be awake." "She saves me from an inferno, and sheglad she happened to be awake." "Still she tries to go." "Im cold, sir." "Of course," "Of course," "And we agreed that youd never be cold again." "Well, if you must leave me" "You must." "Ita mystery how he wasnburnt in his bed." "He will read with a candle burning." "I told him how dangerous that is." "Morning, dear." "Morning" "Morning miss." "Morning Grace." "What has happened here?" "Master was reading in bed again." "Fortunenately, he woke up and no real harm was done." "Thatvery strange." "Did no one hear anything?" "Mrs. Fairfax said she heard nothing." "She sleeps heavily." "Youre young, miss." "Maybe you heard a noise." "I did." "At first I thought it was pilot, ." "but pilot can not laugh" "Im certain I heard a laugh." "A strange one." "Hardly likely the master would laugh." "Not when he was in such danger." "I think you must have been dreaming, miss.I most certainly was not dreaming." "Did you open your door?" "Did you see who or what it was you thought laughed?" "On the contrary" "I locked my door." "Very wise." "It would be wise to lock you door the moment you go to bed." "Who knows what might happen?" "Youre not eating again." "You ate very little at lunch time, Miss Eyre." "I hope youre not sickening." "Youre very flushed." "Im very well, thank you." "Never better." "HmmOh, ita fine night.On the whole, a very good day for Mr. Rochesterjourney." "Journey?" "I didnknow he was going out." "Oh, he set off right after breakfast." "Hegone to Mr.Eshtonplace over the other side of Millcote." "Hell likely stay a fortnight or more at the house party." "A fortnight?" "Yes,I told you, hehardly ever here for more than a few days." "And you cansay he hasnbeen starved of company these last two months." "Oh, I mean, fine and proper company, of course, my dear." "When these fashionable, beautiful people get together, theyre in no hurry to separate." "Single gentlemen are especially sought after." "And Mr. Rochester is so talented in society." "The ladies are very fond of him." "Hea very fine singer." "He sings?" "Oh, yes!" "He and Miss Blanche Ingram sang at a Christmas party here some years ago." "This Miss Ingram, is she very beautiful?" "Oh, good Lord, yes.d She has very fine features,brilliant eyes." "Very striking.Well, shethe belle of the county." "Shenot yet married?" "No, the Ingramestate will pass to the son." "The daughters have only small fortunes." "But if sheso very beautiful, she must have wealthy suitors." "Mr. Rochester, for example." "Well, yes, but therea considerable difference in age." "What of it?" "There are more unequal matches made every day." "Why, yes, dear but I scarcely think Mr. Rochester would think that a good idea." "Youve eaten nothing again." "Im sure youre sickening for something, and the masteraway." "I must decide whether to send for Dr Crawford." "Im perfectly well, as I said." "Never better." "Grace:" "Are you sure you werenmistaken, Miss Eyre?" "You were mistaken, Jane Eyre." "Mrs. Fairfax:" "Miss Blanche Ingram is the most beautiful and accomplished young lady." "She is right and proper company for the master." "Miss J.E. accomplishes the teaching of general studies, music, art and French seeks a position of governess" "Who are you writing to, Miss Eyre?" "I thought you had no one to write to." "I dont." "We are your family now." "I wish Mr. Rochester would come back." "I am so bored." "I wouldnwish for long." "Sometimes he leaves us for many a month, especially in the cold winter season." "Once, he left us for a whole year and a quarter." "Oh, that was a very long winter." "I can remember it well." "Miss Eyre, are you sick?" "Your cheeks are pink." "Itvery hot in here this morning, Adele." "Oh, from the master." "Oh, well,Well," "Mr. Rochester is not likely to return home soon?" "Hereturning, all right." "Leah, come quickly!" "Are you sure all this is necessary." "Oh, yes, I think so." "Well, were not sure how many houseguests hebringing, but we must be sure to have more than enough to feed them." "Oh, dear, Ive never done this before." "Well, the masternever been home long enough to have a party." "Goose eggs." "Mrs. Poole gets good wages, I suppose?" "Yeah, about five times what I get." "The masternot stingy." "I wonder" "Ill race you over to the river." "Oh, there they are at last." "I must go down and greet them." "That is Mademoiselle Ingram." "She has a French name, Blanche." "And that is her sister." "I think it must be." "And thatLady Ingram, her mother." "Master says you may join the ladies this evening." "Oh, I must start to prepare at once." "I must wear absolutely my best dress." "Adele, you think too much of your appearance." "Itthe person inside you that matters." "No one will love you for how pretty you are." "I do not think that can be right, Miss Eyre." "You must take her into the drawing room before the guests finish dinner." "Oh, no, surely I donhave to be there." "Adele can go with Sophie." "Masterorders." "He said you must be there, or he will come to your room and bring you down himself." "Adele, come on." "Adele, come on." "You look alike, you move alike, you sound alike." "You are, if I may say so, a particularly fine example of the split female embryo." "I hope youll permit me to ask you some questions." "Oh, of course, everybody is." "Yes, thatright, everyone is interested in us." "Lady Ingram, you donescape our argument so easily." "Oh, Rochester, I donunderstand you." "If some people are rich and some poor, then that is Godwill." "So be it, I am satisfied." "Sit, Adele." "Im sure you are, if youre one of the predetermined rich." "All this nonsensed Adele." "Sit down." "and revolutions, canwe talk about something else?" "There are children and servants present." "Oh, good Lord." "What on earth is this?" "It is Mr. Rochesterward, I suppose." "The little French girl." "Mr. Rochester, I thought you were not fond of children." "Im not." "Then what on earth made you take on that little doll?" "Where did you pick her up?" "I didnpick her up, she was left in my hands." "Well, you should send her to school, where she belongs." "Our schools are expensive." "But you have a governess, I see." "There, hiding behind the screen." "Now, that's expensive, we have to feed them both." "What are you talking about now, Rochester?" "Oh, no, we donwant Mother getting started on governesses." "Were talking of governesses, Lady Ingram." "Oh, donmention them." "Im so glad that Blanche and Mary have no longer any need for them." "Governesses are a nuisance, all of them." "If theyre not eating you out of house and home, theyre carrying on with the tutor, or even worse, making eyes at the master of the house." "Really?" "You surprise me." "Mary, do you remember Miss Twisk or Twitt, or whatever she was called?" "We pretended she was harbouring a passion for Bradstock." "It was your idea." "Yes, we were very naughty." "She was so boring, poor thing." "Mother had her leave instantly, in case she should set us a bad moral example." "You cannot be too careful, Rochester, with a young, impressionable mind in the house." "How do you do, Jane." "I am very well, sir." "Why did you not come up and speak to me?" "I did not wish to disturb you, you seemed engaged, sir." "It is a while since weve seen each other." "What have you been doing?" "Nothing in particular." "Teaching Adele, of course." "You look a good deal paler." "Whatthe matter?" "Nothing at all, sir." "Then return to the drawing room." "I am tired, sir." "Hmm.And a little depressed, I think." "What about?" "Tell me." "I am not depressed." "I tell you that you are." "So depressed that youre almost" "Let me look at you." "Youre about to cry." "Tell me, Jane." "Why are you crying?" "I am not crying." "Tonight, you are excused." "But I expect you to appear in the drawing room every evening after dinner." "Every evening, mind." "It is my wish." "Miss Eyre, why are you not dressed for riding?" "I do not ride, sir." "Well." "Then you must learn." "Come, join us by the fire." "We will not be able to hunt today, Im afraid, with the weather so changeable." "No, of go on a walk." "And my book has gone missing again." "My book, you know, The Beast Within.Oh, I wish you wouldnt, my dear." "How do you dare read those novels?" "Oh, but itvery exciting.It is about a man who commits a crime." "He spends the dark hours raging about like an animal, and then, in the morning, he goes about his business and no one suspects a thing." "Nonsense!" "You donthink it possible that someone who seems perfectly serene and unspectacular from the outside could be capable of committing horrific crimes?" "Certainly not a Christian man." "Although Im sure that Mr.Eshton has all sorts of new ideas about that." "For once, I must admit ignorance." "The brain is a vast and wonderful landscape." "Weve not even begun to navigate its mysteries." "We do not know why it malfunctions." "We are in the very infancy of its science." "Science again." "You make it all sound so very grand." "God gives people good blood and bad blood, and therean end to it." "When Mary and I were in Paris, we went to see the savage boy." "The one who had lived all his life in the woods and could only talk a little gibberish." "If you could call it \ldblquote talked\rdblquote" "Thatwhat Im talking about." "That child had bad blood." "You can clean it, dress it up, but you will never make it good." "You were born bad, Jane Eyre, and you will die bad." "Miss Eyre, is it your opinion that children are born the way God intended them to be, that bad blood will always be bad blood?" "Or can you discipline such a child?" "Excuse me?" "d Of course you should." "Thatcommon sense." "I think it wise that" "Since we must live with the adult," "I think it prudent to treat a child as if they had feelings." "Really?" "Feelings?" "A child has no more feelings than that dog over there." "I would have thought that if you" "Please, Miss Eyre, continue." "Mr.Eshton wishes to hear your opinion." "I think that all children whether they are thought to be of good blood or bad blood deserve to be given the chance to love" "and to be loved." "I do not see the use of punishing a child with beatings and harsh words." "Whatthe use of punishment from a governess?" "You must send that child off to school immediately, Rochester." "All this talk of tainted blood is wearisome." "I know my bloodup." "Youre the best horsewoman in the county." "Shall we ride?" "Oh, regarded." "Jane." "Where are you going?" "I have to speak to Mrs. Fairfax." "She allows Adele to eat too many sugary things." "Afterwards, Ill join in the drawing room." "You might even enjoy yourself." "Well be playing games later." "Dontell me you donapprove of games, Jane." "What do you think of Miss Ingram, Jane?" "I suppose I must choose a bride as all about me seem to wish it." "Is that what theyre saying?" "To preserve this great estate of mine, I must have an heir." "Is that what the gossip requires?" "I know nothing of gossip, sir." "Well, then, Jane, your honest opinion." "Do you think Miss Ingram a good choice?" "Do you think Im in love with Miss Ingram, Jane?" "I know nothing of love, sir." "Donbe late, Jane." "It wonbe long before the games begin." "Oh, now, there it is!" "There is my book, The Beast Within." "It was sitting there all the time." "No, but Im sure I looked there this morning." "Maybe the ghost took it." "The ghost?" "The ghost." "Sophie says it walks the corridors at night." "It eats the gateaux from the kitchen and it laughs in the dark." "A ghost at Thornfield?" "How exciting." "You never mentioned it." "She walks in the corridor with the painting of the mad people." "Sophie says she goes cold and shivers when she" "Sophie is from Marseilles, which means that she wears three or four outer garments even in July." "Our English weather feeds her overactive French imagination." "Oh, you disappoint me." "Maybe we could tell each other ghostly stories." "Im in need of a little danger." "Ghost stories are not of interest." "How do you know if theyre true?" "But, my dear Blanche, if the ladies are interested, I know a game," "If you are not afraid of things that we might not be able to explain" "The supernatural?" "What are you up to, Edward?" "Youre interested in experiments, arenyou?" "Well, I hope you know what youre doing." "L" "O" "V" "E" "Love" "Whonext?" "Blanche, are you ready?" "Of course I am." "H" "E" "A" "R" "T" "H-E-A-R-T Heart" "Oh, Blanche." "It means that you have given your heart to someone." "Do tell us." "As if we didnknow." "L" "E" "S" "S" "Less Less Heart What can that mean?" "Less heart." "Heart less.Oh, heartless!" "Oh, dear Blanche.No, Im sure itmade a mistake." "It must think youre someone else." "You were right, Mr.Eshton. This is a silly game." "Im rather tired." "I think I shall read in bed." "Be careful of your candle, my darling." "Morning." "Eshton: you donthink it possible that someone who seems perfectly serene and unspectacular from the outside could hide a beast within them?" "Ill be away all day on business." "Im sure youll be able to amuse yourselves." "Donbe too late." "Ill be back by sundown." "Donmisbehave, now." "Pilot" "I think that gown Miss Blanche Ingram has the blue." "I think it the most beautiful dress I have ever seen." "It is Monsieur Rochester, he is back." "You said we could finish." "He is early." "Oh, who is this?" "He is tres beau, mademoiselle, nest-ce pas?" "A foreigner, I think." "Although , quite a nice chap." "Masonthe name.Says he met Rochester in the West Indies." "And I think the twins have taken a bit of a shine to" "Speak up, man." "Whatthe matter?" "Itan old gypsy lady, madam." "Come to tell fortunes." "She refuses to leave, and with the master away" "Oh, tell her to go or well set the dogs on her." "No, no, no. tell her to stay." "There are ladies present who wish to have their fortunes told." "But what would Rochester say?" "Well, henot here, is he?" "Im brave enough, if you arent." "Now, whereyour lover?" "Blanche, what happened?" "What did the gypsy lady say to you?" "Rochester was right.She talked absolute nonsense, nothing in it." "You can amuse yourselves with her if you want." "Yes." "Im sorry, miss." "She said she wouldnleave until she had seen everyone, and youre the only one who hasnhad her fortune told." "She would not leave until I had brought you here." "Thatall right, George." "Donworry." "Ill wait outside in case theretrouble." "No, George, you may go." "Im not frightened." "Youre not afraid?" "Of course not." "Do you wish me harm?" "The others were afraid of my magic." "Of my dark arts." "Of what I knew of their worst thoughts and desires." "Surely you noticed that some who entered this room with confidence are now disappointed with what Ive revealed?" "Do you not believe in hell and the supernatural, Miss Eyre?" "I believe what I believe." "Youre a very confident young woman for someone who has never loved." "Who has only had one true friend." "Who was snatched away prematurely." "Where was it?" "Lowood school." "There, now." "Ive impressed you." "These matters are not generally known, for sure, but they are facts.d owidctlpar\qj There are the truth." "You may have found them out by mortal means." "Well said, Miss Eyre." "I can see Im going to have to prove my powers." "To see into your soul to reveal a hidden secret that no one else could possibly know." "What were your thoughts, for instance, when you came to me this evening?" "Itvery pleasant company, is it not?" "Such as youve never known." "And after the long months here alone at Thornfield, with only the child and the housekeeper." "What do you think of them?" "I do not think of them." "Of their opinions and their tastes?" "I do not care for theirs any more than Im sure they care for mine." "Is there no one in the company who you share feelings with?" "What about the master of the house?" "He is not here today." "He is soon to be married, is he not, to the beautiful Blanche Ingram?" "I donknow." "I thought it was you that could predict the future." "Anyway," "I have paid you for my future, not Mr. Rochesters." "Oh, Mr. Rochester is to be married." "I know that for sure, everyone does." "Oh, I see that this news affects you." "You talk nonsense, old lady." "I shall leave you now and send in the next foot." "It is over." "What do you wish me to do?" "What is it?" "Who is there?" "Show yourself immediately, or Ill call a servant." "Sir." "Thank you." "Youve done well today." "Youve given me a deal to think about and amused me greatly." "Now, Jane, donbe too cross." "Im not angry, Im surprised." "Surely you donbegrudge me this little diversion." "The old lady provided me with an afternoonamusement, and our guests were given a mirror to hold up to themselves." "Not undeservedly, surely?" "They are your guests, sir, not mine." "But I believe you got that woman in to talk nonsense to me so that I might talk nonsense back, and that was not fair, sir." "No." "No, it was not fair." "But how else am I to find out what you think, Jane?" "But donworry, you didntalk nonsense, so, er, allwell, isnit?" "And youre not angry with me?" "I donknow." "I have to think about it." "But I expect Ill manage to forgive you, eventually." "Arenyou curious to find out what my gypsy predicted for Miss Ingram?" "I bet the drawing roombuzzing with excitement." "They have plenty to discuss, sir." "Even the stranger who arrived this morning." "What stranger?" "Oh, his name is Mason." "I believe hevisiting from overseas." "What is it, sir?" "Oh, Jane." "I wish I were on a desert island somewhere with only you for company." "Tell me." "If all those people in the drawing room, if they cast me out and spat at me," "what would you do?" "I should try to comfort you, sir." "Can I help you, sir?" "Id do anything for you." "What if I asked you to do something for me that was wrong?" "I know, I know." "I know the answer, Jane." "You could not." "Thank you." "Jane," "Do you believe in redemption?" "If you have sinned, you can be redeemed." "Do you mind if I ask some questions about your habits?" "How about your clothes?" "Did you come down this morning and find that you had dressed the same?" "Yes." "Mason, my dear fellow!" "." "What a surprise.How good to see you again!" "What was it?" "Did you hear it?" "Yes, I thought it was" "Really, I only go away for a day on business, and you overexcite yourselves like children with you occult games and conversations." "But we all heard a cry." "Didnwe, Lady Lynn?" "Yes." "Surely we all heard something.Someone had a bad dream." "Brought on by a combination of the visit from our gypsy friend and too much grouse at dinner." "Are you sure were all safe?" "I am sure." "Anyway, my amazon, what have you to fear from the night hours?" "Itbad enough having strange shrieking, never mind governesses creeping up on us." "Shepale as a ghost." "Well, my Lady." "I shall escort you back to your room personally." "Come, everyone, back to bed." "Im ready." "Are you hurt, sir?" "Itnothing." "Come, we must be silent." "Are we going to the North Tower?" "Do you want to go back?" "No, sir." "I forgot to ask, do you faint at the sight of blood?" "I donknow." "Wait here." "Here." "Richard." "Jane, come here." "You must press this hard on the wound." "Im going now to get the doctor." "Hell have you good as new by morning." "Richard, do not say anything of what has happened or I will not be responsible." "Jane, I have to leave you here while Im gone for an hour or so." "No conversation." "II could not stop her." "Shh." "Be calm." "She has killed me." "You will not die." "I will not let you die." "Sheshedone for me." "Nonsense, the doctorhere, youre in no danger." "There are teeth marks here." "She sucked my blood." "She said she would drain my heart." "I warned you." "I told you not to do anything until I could be with you." "Hurry up, Carter." "We need him out of here before sunrise." "Take care of him at your house." "Ill head over in a day or two to see how he does." "Edwar take care of her as tenderly as you can." "Ill do my best as I always have and always will." "Stay awhile outside with me." "This house is a dungeon." "Ita prison." "Ita lovely morning after such a turbulent night, hey, Jane." "Yes, sir." "Were you frightened?" "I was afraid, sir." "Quietly, go in the back entrance." "Everything all right, miss.What do you want." "Mrs.Fairfax asked me to tell you, you have a visitor." "Oh, excuse me, miss." "It is you, miss Jane." "Donyou recognise me." "Bessie." "Oh, look at you." "Miss Eyre." "I always said Jane Eyre would grow up to be a fine, accomplished young lady." "Not quite a beauty, all told, but a credit to us." "Im glad not to be of discredit to you." "Bessie." "Oh, Bessie, whathappened." "And Im hoping youre not going to disappear once more on your travels." "I suppose you might like to travel yourself one day." "Does Miss Eyre need to speak to you." "Excuse, me." "Well, Jane." "Sir, I need to have a leave of absence for a week or two to see a sick lady whoasked for me." "What sick lady?" "Her name is Reed." "Shemy unclewife." "Uncle?" "You told me you had no family." "My aunt cast me off when I went to school." "Why?" "Because I was poor.And she did not like me." "And she sent you to Lowood without so much as a word or a visit in nearly 10 years?" "So why does she suddenly wish to see you now?" "Her son John is dead." "He ruined himself.She is now struck down with this misfortune." "Ill only be gone two weeks, I hope." "Two weeks?" "Thatnot possible." "And you have company, sir." "Very well." "But promise me that you will not stay with this undeserving aunt more than a week." "I cannot promise." "She is dying." "I cannot set a time on that." "Of course you will go." "How have I the power to stop you?" "Well, you must have some money." "You cantravel without money." "I havengiven you any salary yet, remember?" "How much have you, Jane?" "In all the world?" "Five shillings, sir." "Here." "Take." "No, sir." "You only owe me 15." "I have no change." "I donwant change, Jane, you know that." "Take you wages." "Youre right." "Better not give you all that." "You might stay away for three months." "Here, thereten." "Well, isnthat enough?" "Yes, sir." "But you still owe me five." "Then come back for it." "Sir," "I have to ask you something else, a matter of business." "You have as good as said you intend to be married.Really?" "Thatbeen settled, then, has it?" "Youve decided Miss Ingram is to be my bride?" "Now I see it." "Youre going to prevail upon this miserable family to find you a new situation." "Ungrateful girl." "Admit it." "No, sir." "I told you, they do not like me, sir." "To offer such a service" "I shall advertise." "Devil you will." "Advertise." "I wish Id only offered you a sovereign, not 10 whole pounds." "Give me back nine." "Jane, I have need of it." "No, sir." "I do not trust you." "So, Jane" "Etiquette." "How do we say goodbye?" "Teach me." "ImIm not quite up to it." "We say Farewell or anything else we might prefer." "Farewell, Mr. Rochester, for the present." "And what must I say in return?" "The same, if you like." "Then I will say" "Dongo, Jane." "What will I do without your help?" "Sir, you will not be in danger?" "Rochester?" "Edward?" "Sir, please." "Get along." "You're the best horsewoman in the county." "Shall we ride?" "What do you think of Miss Ingram, Jane?" "Do you think I' m in love with Miss Ingram, Jane?" "I forgot to ask, do you faint at the sight of blood?" "She's done for me." "Nonsense, the doctor's here, you're in no danger." "You've got teeth marks here." "I need to leave for an absence to see a sick lady who's asked for me" "What sick lady?" "Her name is Reed." "She's my uncle's wife." "Don't go, Jane." "What will I do without your help?" "No, not the red room, not the red room!" "No, no, I don't be within." "No, no don't" "Don't take me to the red room." "Jane Eyre?" "She's not part of the family." "Miss Eyre, you have not grown tall." "How is Mrs Reed?" "Mrs Reed?" "Ah, you mean mama." "She's extremely unwell." "I doubt you can see her tonight." "If you would just step upstairs and tell her I've come, I'd be much obliged to you." "She's asked me to come, I would not like to keep her waiting." "Missis is awake, I've told her that you are here." "Who are you?" "I'm Jane Eyre." "How are you aunt." "You are not Jane Eyre." "I've had such trouble with that child." "She was mad." "A fiend." "I sent her away to Lowood when the fever broke out and many died." "But she didn't die." "I wish she had." "Why do you hate Jane Eyre so?" "I hated her mother." "She was my husband's favourite sister." "When she died, he cried like a baby." "And he insisted on sending for the child." "Sickly whining thing." "It wailed in its cradle all night long." "And Reed doated on it, the fool." "Even in his last illness, he called for it rather than his own children." "Where's John?" "He always wants money." "He's a fine boy, and he loves me." "But he didn't wait to get the money." "Where's John?" "Where's John?" "She knows well enough he's gone." "That's why she'll never leave this bed." "Where's John?" "She doesn't mean it, miss Jane, half of what she says." "It's alright, Bessie, I don't mind." "No, really I don't." "You used to get upset, more than upset." "But now you've grown in such a confident young woman." "Who could've known it." "I suppose you have friends now, to confide in, so your troubles don't plague you so much." "That must be it." "Yes, I do have a friend." "Someone who..." "When I talk to them they understand everything I say." "They would laugh if I told them about Mrs Reed." "They're so in tune with me." "They know my thoughts before I even think them." "Before I put them into words." "I always said you'd do well." "I'm pleased that when you leave here you can go home to such people." "My friend is to be married soon, it's almost certain." "If she will not live far away, maybe you can visit." "Yes, of course." "That may be so." "Eshton here says that that swallow there sets South at the nearest shiver of winter." "It travels all the way to the most Southern tip of Africa, and then comes back here to this precise spot." "And I say, how do you know." "Because they all look exactly the same." "And why would they come back here and not stay where it is warm?" "It is in their nature." "It is what they must do." "They must come home." "What do you think, Edward?" "That's enough get along now." "Shouldn't you be in bed?" "No, madame." "Oh, that necklace is so beautiful." "How wonderful that I say it, but it's a pity the governess isn't here." "I expect you're glad she stays away so long." "Oh, no, I wish she would come back." "I like her best of all." "Except for Mr Rochester, of course." "When Mr Rochester sees fit to make a certain announcement, that young lady will feel the benefits of a good English boarding school." "Is there a problem?" "Not at all." "I was just taking a stroll through the hall before dinner." "And did you like what you saw?" "Naturally." "It could of course do with a little management; a few new furnishings here and there." "And you think you'd like to take all this on?" "What do you really want, Blanche?" "If only aunt Gibson would invite me out to town." "It would be so much better." "If only I could get away for a month or two, until it was all over." "Georgiana, if there were ever a more vain absurd animal than you." "You are completely useless." "And in being useless you're going only to cling on to others, and if noone can be found to burden themselves  with such a fat, weak, puffy, useless thing." "You complain you are ill treated and neglected." "You must be flattered, you must be admired, or you languish and die away." "Well, everyone knows you are the most selfish, heartless creature in existence." "I know very well your spite and your hatred." "You ruined my chances with Lord Vear." "You could not bear the thought that I would be raised into circles where you dare not show your face." "Let me give you this advice." "It is the first and last I shall offer you." "If you divide each day into sections, and perform some useful task to timetable  the day would be over before you know it." "You'll be dependent upon your own senses and not have to be flattered and admired in order to know that you exist." "After my mother's death, the hour of her burial, I wash my hands of you." "It will be as if you and I had never know each other." "And if we were the only two human beings left alone on earth together..." "I would not address one more word to you." "Who is that?" "It is I, aunt Reed, Jane Eyre." "You asked to see me." "Yes, I did." "I'm very ill, you know." "I need to ease my mind before I die." "I've done you wrong twice, Jane Eyre." "One was to break the promise I made to my husband." "To bring you off as my own child." "You know that." "Go to my dressing table." "Open it." "Take out and read the letter you find there." ""Madam, would you have the goodness to send me address of my niece, Jane Eyre..." "I wish her to join me in Madeira." "Fortune has blessed me, and as I'm unmarried and childless," "I wish to adopt her." "And bequeath to her all I have when I die." "I am, Madam, sincerely yours." John Eyre" "This was written three years ago." "Why did you never tell me I had an uncle who was alive?" "Because I hated you too much." "I could not forgive you." "Forgive me?" "For your conduct." "I take you on and you treat me with contempt." "You talk to me like a vile wild animal." "Forgive me my passionate nature." "I was a child, aunt." "Let us forgive each other now." "I could not forget." "I took my revenge." "A wrote to your uncle, I told him Jane Eyre was dead." "That she died of a fever at Lowood school." "See?" "I had my revenge." "Now you may have yours." "You can tell him of my falsehood." "I will be dead by morning so I don't care." "Water!" "I forgive you, aunt Reed." "Whether you wish it or not, I do truly forgive you." "Take my trunk on up to Thornfield with you." "Won't you ride, miss?" "You've had a very long journey?" "No, I'm nearly home, it's my favourite walk." "There you are." "You're back." "Ungrateful thing!" "I give you leave for a week and you go home a month!" "I want my money back, since you've had me so little in your thoughts." "I said I would be gone for as long as I was needed." "And I was." "And you still owe me wages." "Come, let's get you home." "Adèle will scream and shout "Bienvenue"." "Thank you ... for your great kindness." "I'm strangely glad to be back again to you..." "Wherever you are, is my home." "It is my true home." "Are you going?" "See, Ashton?" "Our swallow's come home." "Ashton is using my coach to pursue some unusual twins." "Yes, one appears to have been in a sort of a deep sleep for eight months  and he has been woken by a twin now living in Toulouse  by the way, that he never even knew existed." "It's amazing!" "Well, you don't think it possible that two minds are so in tune that they communicate across the country?" "And call out to each other across space and time?" "You're one of the world's most curious people, Ashton." "And you're one of the world's most cynical, Rochester." "Nonsense, I'm the most romantic person I know." "Be off with you." "Amazing minds await your magnifying glass." "Miss Eyre!" "Jane!" "You're back." "Hello!" "At last, the governess has returned from her travels." "Can't you teach that child something so she won't be under our feet?" "It's just such a pity we can't stay for longer." "But at the Boyles there will be a ball next week." "Blanche and I, we won't be there." "We will be occupied with a more important event, I'm certain." "Don't worry, you'll see her again soon." "Ingram Park is a short journey for an enthusiastic rider." "Indeed." "Safe journey." "Ah, there you are." "Is Adèle in bed?" "We've got back to our routine very quickly." "And now that all the house guests are gone, it's like it has always been." "What's that?" "It is a book I used to read as a child." "My escape book." "I used to image that one day I could go anywhere I wanted." "I took it with me to Lowood." "And now?" "Now I think it can go here very well." "Now, Miss Eyre, if we are very lucky we could see some dragonflies." "Did I ever tell you of my travels in the Blue Mounts of Mongolia?" "And you can tell me of your travels in the black and gloomy forests of your childhood memories." "So the vain, fastidious cousin, Georgiana  find a mate within days of your aunt's funeral?" "So it seems." "And what of the nun?" "I believe Eliza will settle in her French convent, never to return to worldly pleasures." "I think that in very few years she'll become mother superior." "So you went to Gateshead half knowing that you wouldn't find the old lady repentent or forgiving, or  in the least bit pleased to see Jane Eyre, and this is how things transpire?" "And yet Jane Eyre doesn't seem to be troubled that she has no family." "Noone in the world outside of Thornfield who wishes her well." "No." "I have no family to speak of." "But I hear you have been making plans of your own." "I assume Miss Blanche's departure from Thornfield is only temporary." "I mean as Adèle's governess it's my duty to help you decide on a suitable school." "Yes." "Yes, indeed." "And we mustn't forget that when I do finally relinquish my bachelor ways we must find you a suitable position." "What do you think of Ireland?" "We don't have to worry about that, now." "Oh, for good worried." "Oh, look!" "Look!" "See the emerald wings?" "Come." "To define the half of anything we divide into two equal parts." "In English, please, Adèle." "I think it must be francais, Miss Eyre, surely it must be." "What do you think?" "A beauty, isn't it?" "Do you think it will do for Mrs Rochester?" "Won't she look like queen Boadicea leaning back on those purple cushions?" "You know, Jane." "I wish I were a little better suited in matching her in looks." "Tell me, magician that you are..." "Are you absolutely sure you don't have a potion to make me more handsome?" "I have told you before." "That would be past the power of magic, sir." "Come, Adèle." "Mr Rochester, I want you to tell me about the Caribbean islands again." "Sophie has taught me a song." "All right." "All right, incorrigible woman." "You must imagine a restaurant." "No, a day meeting place." "There are many respectable people who come here at night to socialize." "You must imagine brilliant reds." "Pinks, the most exotic perfumed flowers." "Delightful passionate music." "The women are of course very beautiful." "They wear bright silks." "Ambers, saphires, emeralds." "They are very seductive, but they are also mysterious." "Tantalizing, dangerous." "Stop that noise." "I'll send you to school in the morning, you're like a wild animal." "Caribbean is not as beautiful as it seems, Adèle." "I came back to escape." "Summer's been with us forever this year." "I can't remember one that stayed so long." "And Mr Rochester has stayed with it." "He has never been here in Thornfield for this length of time." "He's found something to keep him from his travels." "Mind you, I think there must have been a little disagreement." "Really?" "Ingram Park is not very far away." "For a suitor..." "And yet he has not saddled the horse for several weeks." "He spends his evenings out talking to you or prowling below in the gardens like a bear." "Of course he's got the household business to worry about." "What do you mean?" "Well, he'll be wanting to find you suitable positions." "For after the wedding." "You know he will take care over that, I'm sure." "I've told you he's a good master." "Thornfield is pleasant in the summer, isn't it, Jane?" "Yes, sir." "You've become attached to the place." "Yes, sir." "And you'll be sad to leave?" "Yes." "Must I leave, sir?" "Must I leave Thornfield?" "Yes, I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you must." "You're to be married?" "Exactly." "Precisely." "As you with your usual acuteness have already predicted, when I do marry Adèle must find a schoool and you must find a new situation." "Yes, sir, I'll advertise immediately." "No, you won't." "I've already found you a place." "Ireland is a long way away, sir." "From Thornfield." "It is a long way away from you, sir." "We've been good friends, haven't we, Jane?" "It's difficult to part from a friend and know you'll never meet him again." "And you and I, it's like we were a pair of Ashton's twins." "Bound together in some unworldly way, sharing a spirit or so the like." "When we are parted, when you  leave me, I believe that bond will snap, and I will bleed inwardly." "But you'll forget me after a while." "I would never forget you!" "How can you imagine that?" "What do you think I am?" "I wish I'd never been born, I wish I'd never come here." "I wish I'd never grow to love Thornfield." "I love Thornfield." "I love it because I have lived a full life..." "I've not been trampled on." "I've been treated as an equal." "You have treated me as an equal." "You are the best person I know and I cannot bear the thought of having to leave you." "Must you leave me, Jane?" "Oh, of course I must, because you have a wife." "What do you mean?" "Blanche Ingram, of course, you're as good as married to her." "You've promised, sir." "I have not promised Blanche anything." "It's a someone who is inferior to you." "Someone who you have no sympathy with." "Of course I must go." "Do you think that I'm a machine?" "That I can bear it?" "Do you think because I'm poor  plain, obscure and little  that I have no heart?" "That I'm without soul?" "I have as much heart as you and as much soul." "And if God had given me some beauty and wealth  I would make it as hard for you to leave me as it is for me to leave you." "You'll not leave me, Jane." "Let me go." "Jane, don't struggle so." "I'm a free person, and I'll go and do as I please." "Yes, yes you will." "You will decide your own destiny." "Jane, I offer you my hand, my heart and all my possessions." "You laugh at me." "No, no." "Jane, I want you to live with me." "To pass through life as my second self." "My best earthly companion." "Jane, have you not faith in me?" "None whatsoever." "You doubt me?" "Absolutely!" "Jane, you know I don't love Blanche." "I love you- as my own flesh." "Jane, say that you will marry me." "Say it quickly." "Jane, do you accept me?" "Are you in earnest?" "I can hardly believe you." "I swear." "Then, sir..." "Call me by my name, call me Edward." "Then Edward, I will marry you." "God, forgive me." "And let no man meddle with me." "I am to keep her." "There is no one to meddle." "I have no family to interfere." "No." "Go on and take off these wet things." "Good night." "Good night, my darling." "I feel so astonished." "I hardly know what to say to you, Miss Eyre." "Mr Rochester came in here about five minutes ago to tell me that he had asked you to marry him." "Oh, this cannot be true." "But, why?" "I'm sorry to offend you, Jane." "But you are so young, you know nothing of men." "Well, I've noticed that Mr Rochester seemed to make you a favourite..." "But I thought..." "That I was too monstrous to love?" "No, I meant, I thought you too level-headed." "Too sensible a young woman to be so overwhelmed." "Overwhelmed?" "Well, are you overwhelmed?" "I believe the good woman thought I had forgotten my station." "And you yours." "Little does she know that I am the servant and you are the mistress..." "I'm sorry, I know that look." "She thinks I do not know myself and that you are doing as all men must." "Jane, she doesn't know us." "All the same, sir." "Sir?" "When did I become sir again?" "Last night you stood before the heavens and pronounced yourself my equal." "That's the Jane I want to marry, to share my life." "Would you dine with me tonight?" "No, sir." "Edward, you promised to call me Edward." "Until we marry, if we marry..." "In one month, one short month..." "You'll be Mrs Rochester or I'll be damned." "Then, until that morning I'll call you Mr Rochester." "It is halfway between Edward and sir." "I'll continue to teach Adèle, we'll go on as before." "And then we'll see if this idea, this..." "Marriage... is a sensible proposition." "I'm not interested in pleasing Mrs Fairfax." "But for you..." "For you I will obey." "Now hurry up and get your bonnet, or we'll be late." "For what?" "We're going to town." "Ah, no, no." "You're not coming." "Out of there now." "Oh please let me come Miss Eyre!" "No!" "Absolutely non." "Jane and I..." "Miss Eyre and I are going shopping by ourselves." "Shopping?" "Were you listening to a word I said?" "Just today!" "To celebrate." "For come, you cannot get married in that!" "I will not be married at all if you force me into that ridiculous carriage!" "John, bring up the other carriage." "And Adèle shall come too." "No." "I'll send her to school yet!" "But shall I go without mademoiselle?" "Absolutely SANS mademoiselle." "I will take mademoiselle away." "To Europe first  where I will take her to all the grand palaces." "I will present her to all the kings and queens." "You cannot do that, because she has no jewels." "Oh she will have." "In London there's a very special box." "Filled with jewels." "I will send for them immediately" "And mademoiselle will be covered in them from head to toe while she teaches you mathematics." "And when Madame as she will be then when Madame..." "Is tired of all those kings and queens..." "I will take her to a villa white-washed and secluded..." "On the edge of the emerald Mediterranean..." "Yes, this will do very well." "We need at least six daydresses." "Choose the evening garments." "We'll need three at most." "And this for the veil." "Even Adèle would draw a line at that." "There." "This is much more suitable." "Now, evening dresses." "For mademoiselle." "What do you think?" "No?" "This is for mademoiselle." "The child knows you better than I do..." "We take it." "Jane Eyre will not be overwhelmed." "Miss Eyre, you will really be going to Miniterre for the wedding?" "Yes." "You'll stay the night at the Contlander Hotel and then take the steamboat to France?" "Yes." "I wish I could go with you." "You must stay here." "But don't worry, Mr Rochester..." "We will pick out a good school for you." "They will hit me and starve me?" "No." "I promise that will never happen." "Go!" "Who's there?" "Who is it?" "George, what time did the master say he'll be home?" "Don't worry, miss." "He's been away one night already." "He will not stay away another." "So I'm only gone for twenty-four hours, and I return to this?" "You can't do without me, clearly." "Is anything wrong?" "It was not Sophie." "It was not Mrs Fairfax." "It was not even Grace Pool." "What, you were dreaming." "I had been dreaming, but then I awoke." "Thank God nothing worse happened." "Thank God you're safe." "It was not Grace Pool." "Who else could it have been?" "I was not dreaming." "And the rest of your dream?" "Thornfield a neglected ruin?" "And I left you without so much as a word." "No." "I'm sorry." "Put it down to your anxieties." "Your natural anxieties about the new life you're about to enter." "Yesterday I was very busy and happy packing." "I was not worried about the future." "I think it a glorious thing to have the hope of living with you." "Because I love you..." "It was a fine day, yesterday." "Look." "The storm is gone." "Here we are." "Miss." "Wait." "That's it." "Thank you, Sophie" "Wait a minute Miss.Look at you." "You're so beautiful." "Madam" "At last, there you are." "How could I have thought that that gaudy veil would have suited you better." "Is John getting the carriage ready?" "Yes, sir." "Is the luggage brought down?" "Yes, sir." "Good." "Have it strapped and ready on the carriage." "We're leaving the moment we return from the church." "Yes, sir." "I'm sorry, Jane." "Are you ready?" "I require and charge you both, as you will answer on the dreadful day of judgement  that the secrets of all hearts shall be discloses  that if either of you know any impediment why you may not lawfully" "be joined in matrimony, you do now confess it." "Are you well assured that so many as a couple together otherwise than God's word has allowed  are not joined together by God, neither is their matrimony lawfull." "The marriage cannot go on." "I declare the existence of an impediment." "Proceed!" "I said, proceed!" "I cannot proceed without some investigation." "Perhaps it might be got over, explained away." "I hardly think so." "It is insuperable." "Mr Rochester has a wife now living." "Who are you?" "My name's Briggs, a solicitor." "And you enthrust on me a wife." "I would remind you of her existence, sir." "Which the law recognizes, if you do not." "I have no wife." "Edward Fairfax Rochester of Thornfield Hall  was married to Bertha Antoinetta Mason  at St. Benedict's church in Spanishtown, Jamaica..." "On the eighteenth day of March, 1825." "If that is a genuine document it doesn't prove that the woman mentioned there is still living." "She was living three months ago." "I have a witness to the fact." "What have you to say?" "What have you to say?" "Gentlemen, this is a place of God." "My sister is living at Thornfield Hall." "I saw here there last June." "Impossible." "I'm an old resident of this neighbourhood, sir." "I've never heard of a Mrs Rochester at Thornfield Hall." "No, by God!" "I took care that none would." "Enough, that is enough." "Clear the church, there will be no wedding today." "Before you go, however  I beg you to come up to the house  I've someone I wish you to meet." "Take it back to the coach-house, John." "It won't be needed, today." "Very good, sir." "Away with your congratulations!" "They're fifteen years too late." "Do you remember this room, Mason?" "Where you almost lost your life?" "Good morning, Mrs Pool." "How is your charge, this morning?" "A little touchy, sir." "We were having some breakfast, but she's calm now." "Will you be very careful, sir?" "Aren't I always, Grace?" "We'd better leave." "Why, Richard?" "Why, are you frightened?" "Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to my wife?" "Just leave quickly, sir, and she will be calm again." "Lock the door." "That was my wife." "As some of you know, my father was a greedy man, who wanted to preserve his estate by marrying his younger son off, to a wife who would bring him a rich dowry." "I was sent to the Caribbean, where  knowing my predilection for dark, handsome women..." "I was tricked by Mason and his father into pursuing his sister, Bertha, who was as beautiful as the glittering stars, and just as tantalizing." "I was married before I knew it." "Before I had met the mother who was, I found out later at that time, and had been... for many years incarcerated in a mental asylum, and that insanity ran through the family like a black river of disease." "I didn't spend half a day before I realized what manner of wife I had been tricked into." "It was but a few weeks before the full extent of her illness was made clear to me." "An illness which has grown in violence and foulness at an ever increasing base." "Then, certainly right for his wickedness, my father died." "And my brother straight behind, so I..." "I inherited everything anyway." "The Rochester fortune intact." "I brought her back with me to England intending to make Thornfield a comfortable prison for her and for me." "I've another house hidden away, I could have kept her there." "But the damp being inclement there might have ridden me of her burden." "I could've done that, noone could've blamed me." "But I left her here." "With Grace." "While I travelled the world trying to forget the horrors at home." "Until one day  one day this  girl appeared, who knew nothing of this..." "This girl." "Who stands so quiet and grave at the mouth of hell." "This girl." "Who is all quietness, and sanity, and innocence." "Do you wonder why I wanted her?" "Why I risked the oath to God to get her?" "And now I must ask you to leave." "I must see to my wife." "Jane?" "Jane." "Forgive me." "I couldn't tell you, I knew you'd never stay." "Jane, come away with me." "We'll go and live together, and quite pushed for ever away from everyone." "You have no family to care." "To interfere with us." "Jane." "Jane, can you hear me?" "Jane." "Why didn't you never tell me that I have an uncle that still alive?" "Because I hated you too much." "Jane, I offer you my hand, my heartand all my possessions." "As you say you would marry me.Say quickly." "The marriage cannot go on." "I declare that there is an impediment." "Edward Fairfax Rochester, Of Thornfield Hall ... was married to Bertha Antoinetta Mason ... on March 18, 1825." "Our Father ... which art in heaven hallowed be thy name" "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth, as it is..." "Wait, Helen, wait for me." "She must have been on the moors for days." "Weeks, even." "Poor creature." "She looks so pale." "St. John found her just in time." "Who do you think she is?" "Where did she come from?" "Jane!" "Jane!" "I'm sorry to be such trouble." "You cannot remember your name?" "Or your family?" "Why don't we try to help?" "We can tell you what we know." "Oh, yes." "We think you must have wandered on the moors for many days, maybe weeks." "We do not know where you traveled from.With no money or support of any kind." "So, you see, you are a mystery." "We've made our own story." "We think you are a young, well-bred woman who has run away from home because of family disapproval, some romance..." "Diana, not now." "All right then.We will not speculate yet." "But this is not the hand of a working woman, so you are a well-bred lady." "A governess." "A teacher of some kind." " You speak French extremely well." "And you know geography." " Or you've traveled widely." "You talked of foreign places as if you had felt their heat, smelt their smells." "I have not traveled beyond England." "How can you be sure if you can't remember anything?" "Hannah has washed your dress." "See here." "so" "J.E., "L" School?" "Is that any help?" "It might not have been her dress." "I do not know what this means, but I know that I am honest." "It seems she does not remember yet, but surely we have conscience enough not to play games with her identity." "Good Lord, Miss." "You look like a ghost." "Here, sit down." "Though I think you're so faded, you might melt away with the heat." "Careful." "I love the fire." "I think I must have been very cold at one time in my life." "The misses will be angry with me if I don't get you back to bed." "I have spent long enough in bed." "I must try to repay everyone's kindness." "Do the young ladies live here along?" "Since their father died." "Mr. St. John lives in his parish over at Morton." "I don't know how long they'll last here." "They haven't a penny between them." "The girls will have to go for governesses soon." "You have book learning, I suppose?" "So you could earn you own living if you chose?" "I have done, and I will, just as soon as I can advertise." "Advertise?" "Well." "You are a surprising little thing." "And how long have you been looking after the family?" "Thirty year." "I saw all the children born." "Young St. John came out of the womb already a clergyman." "I'm glad you are up and about." "Miss Elliott." "I believe, in the absence of knowledge, that my sisters have christened you." "They think it suitable." "But is it your name?" "No matter." "Jane Elliott it is." "My sisters would like to keep you, like a stray off the moor." "Do you intend to live off their charity?" "For they have very little to spare." "Of course not." "I wish to be put to work." "I will do anything honest." "But surely, the cuckoos are too fat... to fly thousands of miles." "They go somewhere." "Maybe to the corners of Europe." "You are full of information." "Not only do you know all about European birds, but South American birds, Patagonian lizards." "Someone must have taught you." "Jane." "I have seen one like this in the West Indies, but never here." "You see there.Have you had an unpleasant memory?" "No, it was not." "Not unpleasant." "Good evening." "Good evening." "This must be the mysterious Miss Elliott." "I'm Rosamond Oliver.I live with my father at Vale Hill." "Good evening, Mr. Rivers, and good evening, Carlo." "How Would I forget you?" "You dog is quicker to recognise his friends than you are, sir." "A lovely evening, Miss Oliver, but a little late for you to be out alone." "Papa says you never come to see us now." "You are quite a stranger." "He is alone tonight and not very well." "Won't you come back with me?" "It is not a reasonable hour to intrude on Mr. Oliver." "Reasonable hour?" "But I declare it is." "It is just the hour when Papa most needs company, and you would not be intruding, because I have invited you." "Do come." "Poor Rosamond." "Honestly, St. John." "He's as inexorable as death." "She adores him." "And he adores her." "Is there some obstacle?" "Her family?" "No, her father adores him, too." "He doesn't mind that St. John is not wealthy?" "No, it's St.John." "he's perverse." "He will not allow himself to have her." "Oh, if only I were so in love." "We should embrace it." "It is a crime against God to deny yourself love." "It should be the 11th Commandment." "that these two persons, present now come to be joined...." "Therefore, if any man can show any just cause why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace." "Miss Elliott?" "Are you feeling unwell?" " I am quite well, thank you." "The church is well attended?" "And we are lucky in our benefactor, Mr. Oliver." "You met his daughter, Miss Rosamond." "He owns a needle factory in the valley." "He's very generous." "Mr. Oliver, in fact, was the inspiration for the employment I have found for you." "If, of course, you should wish to take it." "When I first arrived in Morton, there was no school." "The children of the poor had no hope of progress." "I have established one for boys." "Now it is the turn of the girls." "There is a cottage available, simply furnished." "The mistress's salary will be 30 a year." "Will you take the job?" "I could organize the studies as I wished?" "No beatings." "And enough food for dinner." "As long as you taught God's word." "Then I accept, with all my heart." "You understand that this will be a village school?" "Poor girls, to whom you will teach knitting, sewing, reading, writing... and maybe arithmetic at the very most." "What will you do with your accomplishments?" "Save them, until they are wanted." "I do not think you will stay here long." "I am not ambitious." " No, but you are impassioned." "Excuse the word." "I mean that... for you, human affections and sympathies have the most powerful hold." "You cannot hate me, Jane." "I didn't mean to deceive you." "Unlike you," "I cannot live alone without the warmth of human companionship." "I roamed the world... then, returning one night to this cold, dark place..." "I saw this..." "This magical thing." "You were in my path." "Do you remember?" "And since that moment," "I have never wanted to leave the place that you were." "Though you left, I remained." "Waiting for my little bird to return." "We are one, you and I." "We have to be together." "We have to be together." "We are like those twins, so intertwined in their senses and feelings.... that they can cry out to one another across continents, so close are their thoughts." "Say that you don't love me." "I dare you." "You cannot." "I will not." "I will love you until I die." "And yet you will leave me?" "You mean to go your way and for me to go mine?" "Yes, sir." "Sir, again?" "Not Edward?" "By tomorrow, Mary and I will be blown to the ends of the earth." "Derbyshire and Nottingham are not so very far away." "We have to go and teach fat, little boys lessons they do not want to learn, and we will never see our cottage again" "She fears she will never see St. John again." "Why not?" " Because he's so pig-headed." "He will be a missionary." "He will go to a really hot place and that will be the end of him." "It is his chosen path." "He thinks it's the only way to serve God." "But why can't he serve God here?" "You know that's never been enough." "He needs to make a grand gesture." "Jane, you must keep him here." "Look after him and don't let him out of your sight." "I don't think I could ever change St. John's mind against anything he'd decided on." "Bye, miss.Don't forget, Jane." "We're relying on you." "Now, this is Morton." "Can anyone point out where we are?" "Ow.Alice. Alice, the clock.The time." "It's home-time." "The bell." "Still getting used to the clock." "Never mind, we're coming along." "I am determined to make scholars of them all." "Hello, Miss Elliott." "I am so glad you decided to stay in Morton... to be mistress of our endeavour." "I have brought you a pretty little pair of doves." "The dovecote has been empty for some years." "I thought you might conduct nature classes." "Diana said you were an expert on birds." "She exaggerates." "And do you like your house?" "Have I furnished it nicely?" "Very much, thank you." "St. John." "Miss Elliott approved of my arrangements." "Why should she not?" "Come along, girls, home." "I have just remembered that now Diana and Mary have left... you must be so lonely." "Please, come home with me and see Papa." "Mr. Rivers!" "can I speak with you a moment?" "That is a very graceful and correct drawing." "Correct?" "That word is a little lacking in passion, isn't it?" "I mean, for someone who loves Miss Oliver as you do." "Will it comfort you... when you're in Madagascar or the Cape?" "Or would the sight of her distress you?" "You are very direct, Miss Elliott." "You must know me well enough to know I mean no mischief or disrespect." "She likes you, I am sure, and so does her father." "She's a sweet girl." "A little lacking in reserve, but you have more than enough for both of you, surely." "Why do you not marry her?" "Why...why do you resist her?" "Does she like me?" "She is always talking of you." "There is no other subject she's more interested in." "It's very pleasant to talk like this." "You may go on for another quarter of an hour." "Well, what's the use of that?" "When you are only planning an even crueller way to resist her." "St. John, you tremble when she comes into the room." "You don't understand." "I love Rosamond Oliver wildly, more intensely than I will ever love anyone again." "So why not marry her?" "Because I know she would not make me a good wife." "We would have a lifetime's regret." "Can you see Rosamond as a sufferer, a labourer, a missionary's wife?" "No, you cannot." "You need not be a missionary." "You may do God's work here." "I will not give up my life's ambition." "Dearer to me than anything." " And Miss Oliver?" "Are her feelings nothing to you?" "She is surrounded by suitors." "She will forget me and marry someone who can make her far happier than I could." "No, Jane." "You do not know me." "I do tremble at the sight of Rosamond, but it repulses me.It has nothing to do with me." "My skin may burn with fever, but in my heart I am a cold man." "Don't." "You have the chance to love someone who loves you with all her soul." "Not many people are that lucky." "You may never find that again." "You are an enterprising young woman, Miss Elliott." "An unusual specimen." "You've made a good start." "I look forward to your career with interest." "I must leave Thornfield, Mr. Rochester." "Now, now." "Do you mean that?" "I do." "And now?" "What do you say now?" "You cannot leave me ." "You cannot leave me." "Confess it." "I will leave you." "How can this flesh be so soft and yielding... and yet your heart be like an iron fist?" "There is a place I know, a villa in the Mediterranean." "It is far from anywhere." "Come and live with me there." "No, Jane, Jane, listen to me." "Listen." "Listen to me." "We would live as brother and sister. for tea or to play bowls, something ... sedate and traditional." "I give you my word.I wouldn't touch you." "Maybe a chaste peck on the cheek on birthdays." "I wouldn't tempt you into a life of sin, Jane." "I wouldn't do that." "I must rest now." ".-Yes, yes, you must rest." "We'll talk in the morning." "Yes, in the morning." "You will think about the villa?" "We will talk in the morning." "(One year later.)" "Girls, this is a butterfly." "Now, pass that round." "Can any of you tell me... how a caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly?" "Miss Elliott." "Miss Elliott." "Good afternoon, Miss Elliott." "Is everything all right?" " Yes, of course." "You look very well." "You have performed wonders in this colourful universe." "You have given it discipline and individuality." "I wish Diana or Mary could come home to live with you." "You're reckless with your health." "I'm well enough." "Oh, forgive me." "One of the girls saw Miss Oliver in her wedding dress and the others begged me to imagine a painting for them." "I told you she would forget about me." "You must allow me to be right sometimes." "Mr. Rivers, what are you doing here?" "I have often wondered where you got that forthright quality." "I've come to have a little talk with you, or rather, I have a story to share with you." "Just over 20 years ago, a poor curate ... fell in love with a rich man's daughter." "They married, and she was cut off from her family entirely." "Within two years, they were both dead." "They left a daughter, and she was cast out onto the very cold charity of an aunt by marriage." "Now we come to details." "A Mrs. Reed of Gateshead, who kept the orphan 10 years and then sent her to one Lowood School." "I calculate she would have been approximately your age." "It seems she did very well there, with qualities very similar to your own, and another coincidence, she rose to be a teacher." "She left Lowood to become a governess to the ward of a Mr. Rochester..." "Mr. Rivers." " I know nothing of... this Mr. Rochester's character... but I do know that he offered marriage to this young woman, but at the altar she had discovered he had a wife still living, a lunatic." "For another quite different reason, one Mr. Briggs, a solicitor, was searching for this young lady, but by then she had disappeared, was never seen again." "Is that not a very strange?" "Since you appear to know so much, tell me this...." "Mr. Rochester." "How is he?" "Where is he?" " I know nothing of him." "But you said they were looking for me." "Did they write to Thornfield?" "Yes, of course, but received no reply." "He must have been a bad man." "You do not know him." "Very well." "But maybe you should ask me how I come to know your story." "What inspired our Mr. Briggs to look for you and to write to me?" "As you know, I traveled to Derbyshire a few days ago." "I had dinner with a family ... who had a housekeeper who was related in some distant way to a Mrs. Alice Fairfax." "Now, she provided me with such an exact description of the mysterious Jane Eyre to relieve me of any doubt." "Did they tell you anything of Mr. Rochester?" "I told you, Mr. Briggs was not interested in him." "Don't you want to know why he was interested in you?" "What did he want?" "Simply to tell you that your uncle had died and had left you all his property and fortune." "Oh, I am sorry." " Sorry?" "For 20,000?" "I am sorry my uncle is dead." "I might have wished to have seen him one day." "Wait." "Wait." "Why would you ever know about this Mr. Briggs and his search for me?" "Why would he write to you?" "There is more, but I fear ... you've had too much surprise for one evening.I will tell you tomorrow." "You will tell me now." "He wrote to me because your uncle was also my uncle." "I am your cousin." "Your half-cousin, that is." "Your mother was my father's sister?" "We are half-cousins?" "You are a strange young woman." "I tell you you've inherited a fortune and you are very serious." "I tell you something of little importance and you dance with excitement." " You have two sisters." "A mere half-cousin may be of no importance to you, but to me..." "I have no-one." "I've never had anyone." "You must go." "Write to Diana and Mary and tell them to come home immediately." "But why?" " ¡PBecause we are rich." "You are rich, Jane." "We may do anything we like." "We may live as we choose." "Write to them tomorrow." "Hurry, Hannah." "We must light the fires before they arrive." "She wants fires in every room, in places where they never were." "What's the use of 5,000... if you can't light a few fires at Christmas?" "20,000..." "St. John!" "I will not hear another word." "We have been over it again and again." "Our uncle left a nephew and three nieces." "We must all profit from his will equally." " Jane, you have never had money." "You do not know what use you may put it to." "And you have never been without family." "I will have a brother and sisters, and a home." "I will be brother to you whether you share the money our uncle chose to leave you, you and only you, or not." "Leaving you with nothing, unable to realise your dreams, and me with a fortune?" "I know enough about money to realise that will not make me happy." "What of the future?" "If you should marry?" "I will never marry." "They're coming." "You're enjoying your German lessons?" "Yes, it is easier than French, but not so..." " I want you to start learning a new language." "We will begin tomorrow." "Go with you?" "To the Cape?" "To share my missionary work." "I've been watching you for over a year now ... and I am convinced you are equal to the task." "Have you never asked yourself why God led you here?" "On that evening, at the very moment you were ready to die, he led me through all this wilderness to find you." "You have always felt you must travel the world." "Jane, it is your destiny." "He had asked you, hasn't he?" "I knew it." "St. John has asked me to marry him." "Thank heavens." "Now he'll stay at home, safe with us." "He has asked me to marry... him that I might accompany him on his missionary work." "The two of you will shrivel up and die." "You are both too pale to go to Africa." "You did not agree to go, Jane?" "Jane, you cannot." "We sail in six weeks." "We must make marriage preparations." "Why can we not travel as brother and sister?" "As equals?" "That would be impossible." "St. John, you do not love me." "Love is not an ingredient in this matter." "I fear you have not forgotten your old association, despite the harm he tried to do you." "I will never see any of them again, but I owe a debt to my friends at Thornfield Hall." "In many ways, I started my life there." "I became Jane Eyre." " God made Jane Eyre." "You surely don't give this man Rochester any credit for that?" "Of course not." "I have always known myself." "But he was the first to recognise me and to love what he saw." "I'll give you your answer, St. John, soon." "Don't worry." "And if I go with you, it will be my decision." "You'll have him to thank for that." "Jane!" "Jane!" "Jane!" "Jane!" "Jane!" "Aye, it's a pity, all right." "Did you know Thornfield Hall?" "Aye, miss, I used to work for the late Mr. Rochester in his stables." "He is dead." "I mean, the present Mr. Edward's father." "I'm guessing you're not from these parts, miss, so you don't know what happened a while or so back." "It were almost a year ago now." "Mr. Edward had sent away most of the servants, so nobody knows exactly what happened." "Bertha." "Bertha, come down." "Take my hand." "Bertha, it's not safe up here." "Will you take my hand?" "Come, we'll go down together." "Will you take my hand?" "Bertha, come down." "Bertha," "No!" "Who's there?" "Damn it." "Where are my candles?" "Do you think because I'm blind I don't need them?" "What's the matter now?" "Has Pilot gone mad like the rest of us?" "Well, man, what's the matter?" "George?" "That is you, isn't it?" "George is in the kitchen, sir." "Who is that?" "Pilot knows me, sir." "These are Jane Eyre's fingers." "I'd know them anywhere." "It's Jane.." " It is me, sir." "I'm come back." "You are real?" "I dream of you often, and in the morning, you're gone." "You always were a witch." "Does that seem real?" " You always did torment me." "I'm very real, sir." "I'm an independent woman." "My uncle died and left me 20,000, but I gave most of it away." "No, I could never have dreamt such detail." "You will stay with me?" "I will stay with you as long as I live." "Unless you would prefer I go." "No, no." "Stay." "You shall stay." "It's a ghastly sight, isn't it, Jane?" "I knew if you ever saw me again, you would be revolted by me." "I am sorry for this." "And this." "And this." "The worst of it is, one's in danger of spoiling you too much." "When do you have supper?" "I never take supper." " Well, you shall tonight, for I am very hungry." "Have you a pocket comb about you, sir?" "What for?" "I need to comb out this shaggy black mane." "I find you quite alarming when you're this close, and you accuse me of being supernatural." "Am I hideous, Jane?" "Very, sir." "You always were, you know." "You haven't lost your wickedness, wherever you've been." "Yet I have been staying with good people." "Far better than you." "A hundred times better." "Altogether more refined and exalted than you will ever be." "Who the devil have you been with?" "There." "You are decent, at least." "I will tell you about them tomorrow." "I have been traveling for days and I'm tired." "Good night." "Jane..." "Were there only ladies at the house where you were?" "The grass is soft and mossy in that little patch, and the blackbird's wing is like coal with an emerald sheen." "So this St. John person you have been mentioning so often, what of him?" "Well, he is tall, with blue eyes and a Grecian profile." "He's handsome then, compared to me." "Oh, he's much more handsome than you." "And he's a far better Christian, of course, than you ever were." "Well, I thanked God last night for your sudden reappearance." "The other night, I cried out to him in my despair." "I called your name, too." "What about his brain, this Rivers fellow?" "Find yourself getting bored when he speaks?" "He doesn't say very much, but what he says is to the point." "His brain is first-rate." "Did he study much?" "Taught you things?" "Oh, yes." "He taught me languages." "All right." "Why did he do that?" "He wanted me to go with him to Africa." "He wanted you to marry him?" "He asked me to marry him." "You're lying." "You've made this up to torment me." " Aye, he asked me more than once." "Well, then, I think you might take yourself off and go elsewhere." "Why are you still here?" "You've done your duty.You've assured yourself that I am still living." "Well, still living a tenth of a life." "You, heiress." "Well, if you want me to go..." " No." "I'll pack my bags." " No, no." "Humour a foolish old ranter for a little bit longer before you go, hmm?" "St. John does not love me." "I do not love him." "He's good." "Great, even, but... severe." "Cold as an iceberg." "He's heartless?" "Oh, worse than that." "He has a heart." "I've seen it overflowing with passion, but... he just keeps it buried in stone with a tenacious willpower." "He is much more frightening than you." "It's turned chilly." "We've been sitting here too long." "No, I want to stay out here." "You can go on in if you wish." "The night I left..." "The night I left you told me of a villa you own in the Mediterranean," "where we might go for refuge and live as brother and sister." "I remember." "Jane" "Jane, are you still there?" "I'm here, sir." "Jane, that villa I mentioned, the..." "The separate bedrooms... the peck on the cheek on birthdays, that sort of thing?" "Yes?" "Well, that plan doesn't strike me as so attractive as it once did." "Do you not want to be friends?" "Jane, would you be so good as to come back and sit beside me?" "Jane, I want a wife." "Jane, I want a wife." "Not a nursemaid to look after me." "I want a wife... to share my bed every night." "All day, if we wish." "If I can't have that, I'd rather die." "We are not the platonic sort, Jane." "Can you see me?" "Then hear this, Edward." "Your life is not yours to give up." "It is mine, all mine, and I forbid it." "No, George, I told you." "You're not to work today." "You are part of the enterprise." "Sit down and don't move." "What's he doing?" "Moving chairs." "come on, everyone" "What a pretty dress." "You must take your place.There.you must go directly right behind us." "Grace." "Pilot, not on the chairs." "Now, stand there." "Where's the baby?" "Diana" "Jane, take your place beside me." "Come, little one."