00:00I began to cherish hopes. I had no right to conceive. Never had Mr. Rochester been kinder to me, and alas, never had I loved him so well.
00:30Jane! Come and have a look at this fellow. Could his shadow feel?
00:47Look at his wings. He reminds me of a West Indian insect. One doesn't often see so large and gay a night rover in England.
01:04Ah, he's flown. Stay, turn back. It's a shame to sit in the house on so lovely an evening.
01:15Though my tongue is usually prompt enough at answer, there are times when it sadly fails me.
01:21Come. The sun is setting as the moon rises.
01:27Jane, Thornfield is a pleasant place, is it not?
01:47Yes, sir. And I suspect you've become attached to it.
01:51Yes.
01:53As you've become attached in some degree, though I don't comprehend it, to that foolish little girl Adele, and even to simple Mrs. Fairfax.
02:01In different ways, I have an affection for both.
02:04Pity. It is always the way.
02:07No sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, then a voice calls out to you to rise and move on.
02:13Must I move on, sir?
02:14I believe you must, Jane.
02:16Well, sir, I shall be ready to move when the order comes.
02:22We made a bargain, did we not?
02:25You requested that when I married Miss Ingram, Adele should be sent to school, and you allowed to leave.
02:31Then you are going to be married.
02:33Very soon, Miss Eyre.
02:35You're not turning to look after more moths, are you?
02:38There was only a lady clock child flying away home.
02:42And I promised I would find you a new post.
02:45Yes, sir, you did.
02:47Well, I've heard of a place that will suit.
02:50It is to undertake the education of the five daughters of Mrs. Dionysius O'Gall, of Bitternut Lodge, Connaught Island.
02:56It is a long way off, sir.
02:58No matter.
02:59A girl of your sense will not object to the voyage or the distance.
03:03Not the voyage.
03:07But the distance.
03:09And then the sea is a barrier.
03:11From what, Jane?
03:12From England, sir.
03:14From Thornfield.
03:16Well?
03:17From you, sir.
03:20It is a long way, and I'm sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels.
03:24But if I can't do better, how is it to be helped?
03:27Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?
03:33I could risk no sort of answer.
03:36Because I sometimes have a feeling, especially when you're near to me as you are now,
03:40It's as if I had a string under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.
03:50And if that boisterous channel should come between us, I'm afraid this cord of communion will be snapped.
03:57And I have a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.
04:01As for you, you'd forget me.
04:03Oh, that I never should.
04:05Impossible to proceed.
04:07Oh, I wish...
04:09I wish I'd never been born or come to Thornfield.
04:12Because you're sorry to leave it.
04:14Because I love it.
04:17Because I've lived properly here.
04:19I've not been trampled on, not been petrified.
04:24I've not been buried with inferior minds.
04:28I've talked face to face with what I reverence and delight in.
04:33With an original, a vigorous and expanded mind.
04:36I've known you, Mr. Rochester.
04:39And now I see the necessity of departure.
04:41It's like looking on the necessity of death.
04:44Where do you see the necessity?
04:46Where?
04:48You, sir, have placed it before me in the shape of Miss Ingram.
04:51Your bride.
04:53My bride? What bride? I have no bride.
04:55But you will have.
04:57Yes, I will. I will.
04:59Then I must go. You've said it yourself.
05:01No, you must stay.
05:03I tell you, I must go.
05:06Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you?
05:09Do you think I'm an automaton, a machine without feelings?
05:13Or do you think because I'm poor, obscure, plain and little, I'm soulless and heartless?
05:20You think, wrong, I have as much soul as you and full as much heart?
05:25Well, if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth,
05:29I would make it as hard for you to leave me as it is for me to leave you.
05:33Jane!
05:34No!
05:36I'm not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh.
05:43It is my spirit that addresses your spirit just as if both had passed through the grave
05:47and stood at God's feet, equal as we are.
05:52As we are.
05:56So, Jane.
05:58So.
05:59Yes, so, sir.
06:00And yet not so, for you are a married man, or as good as, and wed to one inferior to you, whom I do not believe you truly love.
06:14I scorn such a union, therefore I am better than you. Let me go.
06:18Where, Jane? To Ireland?
06:20Yes. Anywhere.
06:22I've spoken my mind and I'm free.
06:24Jane, be still. Don't struggle so, like a wild, frantic bird.
06:28I am no bird. No net ensnares me.
06:34I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
06:39And your will shall decide your destiny.
06:42Jane, come back to me.
06:45Never. I am torn away now and I cannot return.
06:48But I summon you as my wife.
06:51It is you only I intend to marry.
06:53I thought he mocked me.
06:56I offer you my heart and my hand.
06:59Your bride stands between us.
07:02My bride is here.
07:04Because my equal is here.
07:06And my likeness.
07:09Jane, will you marry me?
07:16Do you doubt me?
07:18Entirely, sir.
07:20You've no faith in me?
07:22Not a wit.
07:23Am I a liar in your eyes?
07:25Little skeptic, you shall be convinced.
07:28What love have I for Miss Ingram? None.
07:31What love has she for me? None.
07:33I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed.
07:37Such sudden coldness when we next met.
07:39I could not, I would not marry her.
07:42But you.
07:44You strange, almost unearthly thing.
07:48I love you.
07:51Like my own flesh.
07:53You.
07:55Poor and obscure and small and plain as you are.
08:00I entreat you to accept me as a husband.
08:05His earnestness and incivility began to give credit to his sincerity.
08:11You, Jane.
08:13I must have you for my own.
08:15Say yes quickly.
08:16Mr. Rochester, let me see your face.
08:20Turn to the moonlight.
08:22Why?
08:24Because I want to read your countenance.
08:26Turn!
08:28There.
08:30Read on.
08:32Only make haste for I suffer.
08:34Oh, Jane, you torture me.
08:37How can I do that?
08:39If you are true and your offer real.
08:42It is.
08:44My only feelings to you must be gratitude and devotion.
08:47They cannot torture.
08:49Gratitude?
08:50Jane, accept me quickly.
08:51Say Edward.
08:52Give me my name.
08:53I will marry you.
08:56Do you truly love me?
08:58Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?
09:01I do.
09:03Then, sir, I will marry you.
09:11Edward.
09:14Edward.
09:16My little wife.
09:18Come to me entirely now.
09:21Make my happiness.
09:22I will make yours.
09:26God pardon me and men meddle not with me.
09:29I have her and will hold her.
09:32There is no one to meddle, sir.
09:36I have no kindred to interfere.
09:39No.
09:40That is the best of it.
09:43You happy, Jane?
09:45Yes, sir.
09:47It will atone.
09:49It will not love in my heart and constancy in my resolve.
09:54It will expiate at God's tribunal.
09:57I know my maker sanctions what I do.
10:08For the world's judgment I wash my hands thereof.
10:10For men's opinion I defy it.
10:19The weather changes.
10:21We must go in.
10:24I could have sat with you all till morning, Jane.
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