Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

INT. NIGHT. MOOR HOUSE - THE KITCHEN.

A fire is roaring in the stove. Hannah is bent over it.

HANNAH

We've had a beggar woman come, Mr

Rivers. I sent her - For shame!

Hannah falls silent as she sees Jane.

ST JOHN

You did your duty in excluding

her. Let me do mine in admitting

her.

He sets Jane down before the hearth. She can barely stand.

She is soaked to the bone, filthy with mud. Her skin has a

ghastly pallor. Diana and Mary enter.

DIANA

St John, who is it?

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 5.

ST JOHN

I don't know; I found her at the

door.

HANNAH

(GUILTILY)

I thought her one of the gypsies

from the cross.

MARY

She's as white as death.

Jane can hold herself up no longer. Diana moves forward.

She and St John catch Jane and help her into a chair. The

rain hammers on the windows.