Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

JANE

Connaught?

ROCHESTER

You'll like Ireland. They're such

warm-hearted people, they say.

JANE

It is a long way away, sir.

ROCHESTER

From what?

JANE

From here. From you.

ROCHESTER

We've been good friends, Jane

haven't we? But with the Irish sea

between us you'd soon forget me.

Jane's great distress escapes her.

JANE

I wish I could. I wish I'd never

come here. I love Thornfield -

I've lived a full life here. I've

not been trampled on or petrified

or buried with inferior minds.

I've talked face to face with what

I reverence, with what I delight

in. I've known you Mr Rochester -

ROCHESTER

Then why must you be torn from me?