Jane Eyre Page #6

Twenty thousand pounds.

If you had committed

a murder

and I'd found you out, you

could scarcely look more aghast.

There must be

some mistake.

Not at all.

You look desperately

miserable about it, I must say.

Please,

sit down.

I've shocked you.

Mr. St. John.

The debt I owe to you

and your sisters...

Is nothing.

You saved my life.

Please write to them.

This money frees us.

They will have 5,000 each,

and so will you,

if you'll take it.

Certainly not.

And if you would accept

me as a sister,

perhaps we could

live together,

at Moor House.

I told you the

news too quickly.

You're confused.

My only relative is dead.

You have family.

You cannot know

what isolation means.

And you cannot know what

it means to be wealthy.

I have been alone always.

I've never had

a brother or sisters.

Please, let me be yours.

Are you reluctant

to have me?

No, Miss Eyre.

On the contrary.

I shall write to my

sisters, as you request.

Brother.

We are bid to work

while it is day.

For night cometh,

when no man shall work.

Help us to choose

the harder path,

for as our master

is long-suffering,

so must we be.

Amen.

- Amen.

- Amen.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- Good night.

Good night.

Is Jane not

our sister, too?

Good night.

Jane.

I go to India

in six weeks.

I can see what

your gifts are

and why they were given.

God intended you

for a missionary's wife.

I want to claim you.

I'm not fit for it.

I trust you

unreservedly.

And know this,

in you,

I recognize

a fellow soul.

I'll go with you

to India.

Jane.

I'll go if

I may go free.

Free?

How can I take out to India a

girl of 19 unless she is my wife?

I love you as a brother.

As a husband, no.

My heart is mute.

Then I must speak for it.

You've said you'll come.

We shall marry.

And undoubtedly enough

of love would follow.

Enough of love?

Yes, quite enough.

Of love?

Yes. In all its forms.

Forgive me, but

the very name of love

is an apple of discord

between us.

My dear brother, abandon

your scheme of marriage.

Why this refusal?

It makes no sense.

I earnestly wish

to be your friend.

You can't give

half a sacrifice.

You must give all.

To marry you

would kill me!

Kill you?

Kill you?

Those words are

unfeminine and untrue.

I know where your heart turns

and to what it still clings.

Say his name.

Say it. Say it!

Jane.

Why have you not yet

crushed this lawless passion?

Jane!

It offends me and

it offends God!

What is it?

Where are you?

Wait for me.

Why do you speak to the air?

Jane.

Jane.

- I am coming!

- Jane!

Wait, please, Miss.

Jane Eyre.

I thought

gypsies were come.

And then I saw you, and

I thought, it cannot be,

you are a ghost.

No one knows

how it started.

I expect that Mrs. Poole took

too much of the gin and water,

and as she slept,

the lady,

Mrs. Rochester,

unhooked the keys.

She did what she failed

to do a year ago,

set the whole place

to fire.

We would have all perished in the smoke,

but Mr. Rochester would not

rest till we were all safe.

Then he went

in for her.

The flames were

tearing up so high

it brought men running

from the village.

I saw her standing

on the roof.

The very edge.

I heard Mr. Rochester

beg her to come down.

But she jumped.

Mr. Rochester remained,

as if he would not move

until the fire consumed him.

I didn't know.

I didn't know it was

his wife, I promise you.

Why did you

run away, child?

I would have helped you.

I had some money saved.

You could have come to me.

Where is he?

Pilot.

Who's there?

This hand...

Jane Eyre.

Jane Eyre.

Edward, I am

come back to you.

Fairfax Rochester

with nothing to say?

You are altogether

a human being, Jane.

I conscientiously

believe so.

A dream.

Awaken then.

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