Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

INT. NIGHT. JANE'S COTTAGE.

Jane opens her eyes. She is sitting at her fireside.

Outside, a snowstorm howls. On her knee is a sketchbook.

She looks down at it.

Rochester's dark eye is beginning to appear on her paper.

She puts a line through it; scribbles it out, blinding him.

She stands up, trying to escape her thoughts. She whispers:

JANE

Edward.

There is a loud knock on the door. Jane starts.

CUT TO:

Jane opening the door. Rochester is there, standing in the

frozen hurricane and howling darkness.

ROCHESTER

Jane.

Jane pulls him inside. She falls into his arms. They

embrace passionately. Jane is actively pulling him towards

her, delirious with love and longing.

CUT TO:

The exact same shot of Jane opening the door. St John

Rivers is there, having waded through the drifting snow.

JANE

Mr St John - What on earth brings

you away from your hearth on a

night like this? Has anything

happened? There's no bad news I

hope?

ST JOHN

How easily alarmed you are.

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 102.

He takes off his cloak; stamps the snow off his boots.