Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

MASON

Fairfax...

ROCHESTER

Richard. How the devil are you?

They embrace, Rochester doing a fine impression of delight.

INT. DAY. LOWOOD - THE HALL.

Jane is standing on the pedestal of infamy, ten years old.

Helen Burns is walking towards her with something in her

arms. The rising sun is all around her.

HELEN

He is yours.

Jane looks down at the bundle. In it, is a newborn boy.

Jane looks up to ask Helen for help. But Helen has gone.

Jane alone with her burden, teeters on the stool. The baby

starts to cry. Jane panics.

The crying becomes deafening, terrifying. It is not a

baby's cry but a human scream.

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 69.