Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

ADELE

Because I start to win!

JANE

Have mercy, Adele. Play with

Pilot for a while.

Rochester is leaning over the balustrade, his head bowed.

JANE (CONT'D)

Is our game disturbing you, sir?

He looks up. A hard and cynical expression has mastered his

countenance, something resolute. Jane is taken aback.

ROCHESTER

On the contrary. I like your game.

I like this cold, hard day. I like

Thornfield.

Rochester picks up the black feather. He starts to walk

across the grounds at a fast pace. Jane follows.

ROCHESTER (CONT'D)

I've been arranging a point with

my destiny, Miss Eyre. My destiny

stood up there by that chimney,

like one of the hags who appeared

to Macbeth. 'You like Thornfield?'

She said. 'Like it if you dare'.

Well, I dare. It's felt like a

plague house for years -

He turns, the whole house now in his sights. He shouts:

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 51.