Ext. A midsummer dawn. Thornfield the grounds

ROCHESTER (CONT'D)

But Thornfield is my home and I

shall like it!

Adele is running after them.

ADELE

Mademoiselle - Il faut jouer -

Rochester snaps at her with shocking ferocity.

ROCHESTER

Get back! Keep at a distance

child, or go in!

Adele's face crumples into tears. Rochester sees Jane's

shock at his outburst. He walks away.

Jane isn't sure whether she has been dismissed or not.

Adele has run back to Pilot. Jane watches her. She suddenly

finds Rochester is back at her side. He walks her along.

ROCHESTER (CONT'D)

She's the daughter of an opera

dancer, Celine Varens. Celine was a

beauty and she professed to love

me. Her ardour was so great that,

ugly as I am, I believed myself her

idol. So I installed in her in a

hotel, gave her servants, gowns

cashmeres, diamonds - in short, I

was an idiot.