Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

JANE

I do.

ROCHESTER

Then you know nothing about me,

nothing about the way I love. Your

mind is my treasure - and if it

were broken it would be my treasure

still. You are my sympathy, my

better self, my angel. I will wrap

my whole existence round you. Let

us leave here tomorrow. Come with

me - as my wife.

JANE

No.

ROCHESTER

I'll pledge you my fidelity -

JANE

You can't.

ROCHESTER

You'll live a happy, most

innocent life -

JANE

I must leave you, sir.

Rochester cannot take this in.

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 97.

ROCHESTER

Don't you love me?

JANE

I do love you - But I mustn't

show it or speak it ever again. I

must begin a new existence -

strange scenes among strange

faces. I must part from you.

ROCHESTER

Must be a part of me; that's what

you mean. You are my wife, Jane.

In truth -