Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

JANE

Yes sir.

ROCHESTER

A strapper, a real strapper; big

and buxom...

He throws a cankered rose across the orchard. Jane manages

to articulate her anxiety.

JANE

I'd do anything for you sir,

anything that was right.

ROCHESTER

(GENTLY)

And if I ever bid you do what was

wrong, you'd turn to me, quiet

and pale and say 'I cannot do

it.' And you'd be as immutable as

a fixed star.

Rochester, gazing at her, seems to have decided something.

He turns a corner and is gone. Jane is left alone. We hear

the sound of a blow.

INT. DAY. GATESHEAD - THE WINDOW SEAT.

The brutal face of John Reed, aged fourteen, triumphant

after hitting Jane.

JOHN

That's for the look you had on

your face.

INT. DAY. THORNFIELD - THE BILLIARD ROOM.

Jane enters as Rochester helps Blanche to line up a shot.

He is leaning intimately over her. She coyly permits him.

JANE

Excuse me, sir.

Jane has ruined Blanche's shot.

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 74.

BLANCHE

Does that creeping creature want

you?