Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

JANE

Are you in earnest?

ROCHESTER

I must have you for my own.

JANE

You wish me to be your wife?

ROCHESTER

I swear it.

JANE

You love me.

ROCHESTER

I do.

JANE

Then sir, I will marry you.

They embrace.

Neither Jane nor Rochester moves. Darkness is almost

complete. Still the intensity of the embrace is held.

ROCHESTER

It will atone. It will atone.

A sheet of lightning momentarily lights up the sky. Some

moments later a distant rumble of thunder.

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 84.

I/E. NIGHT. THORNFIELD - THE FRONT HALL

It is teeming with rain. Rochester and Jane run to the

front entrance. He holds his jacket around her. Lightning.

They reach the dry hearth inside. Thunder. They are both

euphoric, breathless, laughing.