Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

BLANCHE

Is there anything I might do?

ROCHESTER

Miss Ingram, ladies, please

return to your nests like the

doves that you are. You'll take

cold for certain if you stay in

this icy gallery any longer.

The candles flicker and fade as the guests make their way

back to their rooms. Rochester sees Jane.

ROCHESTER (CONT'D)

Come this way. Make no noise.

INT. NIGHT. THORNFIELD - THE THIRD FLOOR.

Rochester stops by a low door. He puts a key in the lock.

ROCHESTER

Be steady. I need you.

He unlocks it. A room hung with tapestries; a four poster

bed with its curtains half drawn. One part of the tapestry

is hooked up over a hidden door - which lies open to an

inner chamber. A dull, sickly light shines out.