Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

EXT. NIGHT. THE MOOR/MOOR HOUSE.

Jane is toiling on through the lashing rain towards the

light. It has become a window. A brief flash of lightning

shows her a low stone cottage. Helen Burns is sitting on

the gate.

CUT TO:

Jane is crawling through the narrow garden. On her knees,

she peers through a window.

On either side of a bright little fire sit two young women.

They look exactly like Jane; slight, neat, dressed in

black. One, Diana, has her hair slightly curled and hides

her gentle eyes behind spectacles. The other, Mary, is very

young; no more than seventeen. Each has a book on her knee.

They are talking intimately.

They look so close, so loving and the room looks so cosy

that it pains Jane considerably.

CUT TO:

Jane knocking at the door. Hannah, an old servant answers.

She is suspicious; Jane looks like a wretch.

HANNAH

What do you want?

Jane manages to find her voice.

JANE

Shelter.

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 4.

HANNAH

I can't take in vagrants. Here's

a penny. Now take it and go.