Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

ST JOHN

She's not at all handsome.

DIANA

She's so ill, St John.

ST JOHN

Ill or well, she'll always be

plain.

Jane's eyes slide away from him and close.

INT. DAY. GATESHEAD - THE MORNING ROOM.

A bright morning. A huge clergyman dressed in black is

staring down at Jane, blocking out the sun. We see him from

her POV; his expansive chest, dramatic facial hair, huge

flared nostrils, frowning brows. He is Brockelhurst, the

epitome of grim.

BROCKLEHURST

There is no sight so sad and so

deplorable as that of a wicked

little girl. Do you know, Jane

Eyre, where the wicked go after

death?

JANE

They go to hell.

BROCKLEHURST

And what is hell, can you tell me

that?

Jane Eyre adapted by Moira Buffini March 2008 12.