Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

JANE

Yes sir.

ST JOHN

How did you come to be roaming

the moors, Miss Elliott?

DIANA

Don't upset her, St John. She

must not be interrogated so.

JANE

Mr Rivers, you and you sisters

have done me a great service, the

greatest man can do - you have

rescued me from death.

ST JOHN

How are we to help you if we know

nothing about you?

JANE

I'll tell you as much as I can. I

am an orphan; brought up a

dependent; educated in a charity

school where I passed six years

as a pupil and two as a teacher.

I left a year since to become a

private governess -

MARY

YES -

JANE

A good situation, where I

remained until...

MARY

Diana, didn't I say so? Didn't I

say she was a governess?

DIANA

We did wonder. We mean no offence

but you have a certain look. Mary

and I work as governesses too.

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 17.

JANE

(with great interest)

Do you?

MARY

We are currently trying to teach

ourselves German, so we may find

better positions.