简爱（70年版）英文剧本台词 Jane Eyre

角色扮演：Jane Eyre

Rochester

Bertha

Mason

(Rochester takes Mason downstairs, puts him in a coach and drives

away. Jane sees them

off, and keeps waiting till Rochester comes back at dawn.)

ROCHESTER: Still awake?

JANE: I could not sleep until I knew you were safe. How is Mr.Mason? ROCHESTER: He will be all right. He’s with the doctor.

JANE: And the danger you thought you were in last night, is that

past?

ROCHESTER: I am not sure for that until Mason is out of England.

Which will be soon, I hope.

JANE: He did not seem a man eagerly to injure you.

ROCHESTER: No! But unintentionally he might. Sit down.

JANE: And what of Grace Poole? Why do you keep her on here? ROCHESTER: I have no choice.

JANE: But surely...

ROCHESTER: Bear with me for a while. Don’t press me for answers. I

count on you more than you know.

Well, Advise me, Jane. I’ll put a case to you of a boy,

a young man...spoiled and indulged from youth, who commits a capital error. I don't say crime but... error.

The consequences are dreadful.The only escape is exile and

senseless pleasure. And then he meets a woman. A fine woman with qualities he has not met in twenty years.

He has a chance of living like a human being again... only

convention stands in the way. Can he ask her to defy?

JANE: You talk of yourself, Mr. Rochester?

ROCHESTER: Yes.

JANE: We are each responsible to God for our actions, I...I do

not think we can ask others to share the burden. Least of all Miss Ingram.

ROCHESTER: Don’t you think if I married her.... she would regenerate

me with a vengeance.

JANE: Since you ask me, sir, no, I do not.

ROCHESTER: You do not like her? Come, be honest.

JANE: I don’t think she is for You.

ROCHESTER: Oh! So confident. And who is for me, then? Have you seen

someone you could recommend?（哼，叹气，音乐起）

You have grown attached to Thornileld.

JANE: I have been happy here.

ROCHESTER: Would it grieve you to leave it?

JANE: Leave it?

ROCHESTER: When I marry I shall not want to live here.

JANE: Of course. Adele will go to school. I will find another

post. I must go in, sir. I am cold.

ROCHESTER: Jane.

JANE: Please, let me go, sir.

ROCHESTER: Wait.

JANE: Let me go!

ROCHESTER: Jane.

JANE: Why do you confide in me like this? What are you and she to

me? Do you think because I am poor and plain I have no feelings? I promise you ... if God had gifted me with wealth and beauty I should make it as hard for you to leave me now as it is for me to leave you. But He did not. Yet my spirit can address yours as if both of us had passed through the grave and stood before Him equal.

ROCHESTER: Jane.

JANE: Let me go, sir.

ROCHESTER: I love you, I love you.

JANE: Please, don’t make me foolish.

ROCHESTER: Foolish? I need you. What is Blanche to me? I know what I

am to her. Money to manure her father’s lands with. Marry

me,Jane. Say you’ll marry me.

JANE: Do you mean it?

ROCHESTER: You torture me with your doubts. Say yes. Say yes! God

forgive me. And let no man meddle with me.. . for I will keep her.

Keep her.

Mason: You have no right to do so.

Jane : Mr. Mason, don't you still stay in the hospital? And I don't understand

what you are saying?

Mason: My sister is standing in front of you.

Jane : （M上前，J追上去) Mr. Mason, who are you on earth?

Mason: Me? I am her brother !

Rochester: Will all of you hit me into the hell?

（一阵撕打）

ROCHESTER: This is my wife. Such is the sole conjugal embrace I am ever to know. Bertha Mason Rochester, mad through three

gnerations. Though I, in my... naivety... was never told. Who

even tried to murder me on our wedding night. Look at her,

Jane. Look at her. But I loved her once as I love you now.

What should I do with her?

Mason: I’m sorry, Rochester, but it is not right! * * (In the drawing room, Rochester sits in an armchair before the fire

when Jane comes in.)

ROCHESTER: So (you’ve) come out at last. You shut yourself in your

room and grieve alone. Not one word of reproach. Nothing?

that to be my punishment?

(Jane keeps silent.)

I didn’t mean to wound you, like this. Do you believe that? I would nothurt you, nt for the world. What was I to do? Confess everything? I should’ve lost you. I might as well lost my life.

JANE: You have lost me. Edward. And I have lost you.

ROCHESTER: No! Why do you say that to me? To punish me a little

longer? Jane, I have been through.. . For the first time... I have

found what I can truly love. Don’t take it away from me.

JANE: I must leave you.

ROCHESTER: Jane, will you listen to me?

JANE: I will not live as your mistress.

ROCHESTER: Is that all that’s important to you? To be Mrs. Edward

Rochester?

JANE: Can you really believe I think that?

ROCHESTER: What am I supposed to believe? You say you love me. How can you think of leaving me then.

JANE: Edward, what would I be as your mistress? A hanger-on? A

dependent with..:with no place of my own? No right to be here? All

rights would be on your side ,none on mine.

ROCHESTER: Rights! You talk like a lawyer! Everything that’s mine is yours. What more can I give you?

JANE: I want nothing. Nothing. Only you.

ROCHESTER: Then stay, Jane.

JANE: When I come to you, Edward, I come to you as an equal. I

will not be less. Even for the man I love.

ROCHESTER: You mean to go one way in the world and let me go

another.

JANE: Yes.

ROCHESTER: This is wicked ! Who in the world would care what we do? JANE: I care. You have a wife still living.

ROCHESTER: Living. Huh!

JANE: She still lives! And whatever state God has seen fit to

visit on her, she still lives. She can’t help what she is. I can't share one

single husdand with another woman.

ROCHESTER: You fling me back then? Upon the life I lived before.

JANE: You need no more choose that than I. You are born to strive

and endure. You will forget me before I forget you.

ROCHESTER: You make a liar of me with such language. Go then, go! If that's all I have seemed to you. Jane, wait! Wait.

Don'tdecided too soon.（对望，Jane转身离去）

Wait a while. Wait just a while.

* * *

(Jane回来）

Jane: You think I want to be Mrs. Edward Rochester? There is no shred of relationship.

Do you think because I am poor and plain I have no feelings? I promise you. . . if God had

gifted me with wealth and beauty 1 should make it as hard for you to leave me now as

it is for me to leave you. I tell you once again, my love. When I come back, Edward, I come to you as an equal. I will not be less.

Even for the man I love.

ROCHESTER :Jane!......

第二篇：20xx年版简爱英文台词(3)

BBC Jane Eyre 3 script

You're the best horsewoman in the county. Shall we ride?

What do you think of Miss Ingram, Jane?

Do you think I' m in love with Miss Ingram, Jane?

I forgot to ask, do you faint at the sight of blood?

She's done for me.

Nonsense, the doctor's here, you're in no danger.

You've got teeth marks here.

I need to leave for an absence

to see a sick lady who's asked for me

What sick lady? Her name is Reed. She's my uncle's wife.

Don't go, Jane.

What will I do without your help?

No, not the red room, not the red room!

No, no, I don't be within.

No, no don't

Don't take me to the red room.

Jane Eyre? She's not part of the family.

Miss Eyre,

you have not grown tall.

How is Mrs Reed?

Mrs Reed? Ah, you mean mama.

She's extremely unwell. I doubt you can see her tonight.

If you would just step upstairs and tell her I've come, I'd be much obliged to you. She's asked me to come, I would not like to keep her waiting.

Missis is awake, I've told her that you are here.

Who are you? I'm Jane Eyre.

How are you aunt. You are not Jane Eyre.

I've had such trouble with that child.

She was mad. A fiend.

I sent her away to Lowood when the fever broke out and many died.

But she didn't die. I wish she had.

Why do you hate Jane Eyre so? I hated her mother.

She was my husband's favourite sister. When she died, he cried like a baby. And he insisted on sending for the child.

Sickly whining thing. It wailed in its cradle all night long.

And Reed doated on it, the fool.

Even in his last illness, he called for it rather than his own children.

Where's John? He always wants money. He's a fine boy, and he loves me. But he didn't wait to get the money. Where's John?

Where's John? She knows well enough he's gone.

That's why she'll never leave this bed. Where's John?

She doesn't mean it, miss Jane, half of what she says.

It's alright, Bessie, I don't mind.

No, really I don't. You used to get upset, more than upset.

But now you've grown in such a confident young woman. Who could've known it. I suppose you have friends now,

to confide in, so your troubles don't plague you so much. That must be it. Yes, I do have a friend.

Someone who... When I talk to them they understand everything I say.

They would laugh if I told them about Mrs Reed. They're so in tune with me.

They know my thoughts before I even think them. Before I put them into words. I always said you'd do well.

I'm pleased that when you leave here you can go home to such people.

My friend is to be married soon, it's almost certain.

If she will not live far away, maybe you can visit.

Yes, of course. That may be so.

Eshton here says that that swallow there sets South at the nearest shiver of winter. It travels all the way to the most Southern tip of Africa,

and then comes back here to this precise spot.

And I say, how do you know. Because they all look exactly the same.

And why would they come back here and not stay where it is warm?

It is in their nature. It is what they must do.

They must come home. What do you think, Edward?

That's enough get along now.

Shouldn't you be in bed? No, madame. Oh, that necklace is so beautiful. How wonderful that I say it, but it's a pity the governess isn't here.

I expect you're glad she stays away so long.

Oh, no, I wish she would come back. I like her best of all.

Except for Mr Rochester, of course.

When Mr Rochester sees fit to make a certain announcement,

that young lady will feel the benefits of a good English boarding school.

Is there a problem?

Not at all. I was just taking a stroll through the hall before dinner.

And did you like what you saw? Naturally.

It could of course do with a little management; a few new furnishings here and there. And you think you'd like to take all this on?

What do you really want, Blanche?

If only aunt Gibson would invite me out to town.

It would be so much better. If only I could get away for a month or two,

until it was all over.

Georgiana, if there were ever a more vain absurd animal than you.

You are completely useless.

And in being useless you're going only to cling on to others,

and if no one can be found to burden themselves...

... with such a fat, weak, puffy, useless thing.

You complain you are ill treated and neglected.

You must be flattered, you must be admired, or you languish and die away.

Well, everyone knows you are the most selfish, heartless creature in existence.

I know very well your spite and your hatred. You ruined my chances with Lord Vear. You could not bear the thought that I would be raised into circles

where you dare not show your face. Let me give you this advice.

It is the first and last I shall offer you.

If you divide each day into sections, and perform some useful task to timetable...

... the day would be over before you know it. You'll be dependent upon your own senses and not have to be flattered and admired in order to know that you exist.

After my mother's death, the hour of her burial, I wash my hands of you.

It will be as if you and I had never know each other.

And if we were the only two human beings left alone on earth together...

I would not address one more word to you.

Who is that? It is I, aunt Reed, Jane Eyre. You asked to see me.

Yes, I did. I'm very ill, you know.

I need to ease my mind before I die.

I've done you wrong twice, Jane Eyre.

One was to break the promise I made to my husband.

To bring you off as my own child.

You know that.

Go to my dressing table.

Open it.

Take out and read the letter you find there.

"Madam, would you have the goodness to send me address of my niece, Jane Eyre... I wish her to join me in Madeira.

Fortune has blessed me, and as I'm unmarried and childless,

I wish to adopt her.

And bequeath to her all I have when I die.

I am, Madam, sincerely yours." John Eyre

This was written three years ago.

Why did you never tell me I had an uncle who was alive?

Because I hated you too much.

I could not forgive you.

Forgive me? For your conduct.

I take you on and you treat me with contempt.

You talk to me like a vile wild animal.

Forgive me my passionate nature. I was a child, aunt.

Let us forgive each other now. I could not forget. I took my revenge.

A wrote to your uncle, I told him Jane Eyre was dead.

That she died of a fever at Lowood school.

See? I had my revenge.

Now you may have yours. You can tell him of my falsehood.

I will be dead by morning so I don't care.

Water!

I forgive you, aunt Reed. Whether you wish it or not, I do truly forgive you.

Take my trunk on up to Thornfield with you.

Won't you ride, miss? You've had a very long journey?

No, I'm nearly home, it's my favourite walk.

There you are. You're back.

Ungrateful thing! I give you leave for a week and you go home a month! I want my money back, since you've had me so little in your thoughts.

I said I would be gone for as long as I was needed. And I was.

And you still owe me wages. Come, let's get you home.

Adele will scream and shout "Bienvenue".

Thank you

... for your great kindness.

I'm strangely glad to be back again to you...

Wherever you are, is my home.

It is my true home.

Are you going?

See, Ashton? Our swallow's come home.

Ashton is using my coach to pursue some unusual twins.

Yes, one appears to have been in a sort of a deep sleep for eight months... ... and he has been woken by a twin now living in Toulouse...

... by the way, that he never even knew existed. It's amazing!

Well, you don't think it possible that two minds are so in tune

that they communicate across the country?

And call out to each other across space and time?

You're one of the world's most curious people, Ashton.

And you're one of the world's most cynical, Rochester.

Nonsense, I'm the most romantic person I know.

Be off with you. Amazing minds await your magnifying glass.

Miss Eyre! Jane!

You're back. Hello!

At last, the governess has returned from her travels.

Can't you teach that child something so she won't be under our feet?

It's just such a pity we can't stay for longer.

But at the Boyles there will be a ball next week.

Blanche and I, we won't be there.

We will be occupied with a more important event, I'm certain.

Don't worry, you'll see her again soon.

Ingram Park is a short journey for an enthusiastic rider.

Indeed. Safe journey.

Ah, there you are.

Is Adele in bed?

We've got back to our routine very quickly.

And now that all the house guests are gone, it's like it has always been. What's that? It is a book I used to read as a child.

My escape book. I used to image that one day I could go anywhere I wanted. I took it with me to Lowood. And now?

Now I think it can go here very well.

Now, Miss Eyre, if we are very lucky we could see some dragonflies. Did I ever tell you of my travels in the Blue Mounts of Mongolia?

And you can tell me of your travels

in the black and gloomy forests of your childhood memories.

So the vain, fastidious cousin, Georgiana...

... find a mate within days of your aunt's funeral?

So it seems. And what of the nun?

I believe Eliza will settle in her French convent,

never to return to worldly pleasures.

I think that in very few years she'll become mother superior.

So you went to Gateshead half knowing that you wouldn't find

the old lady repentent or forgiving, or...

... in the least bit pleased to see Jane Eyre, and this is how things transpire? And yet Jane Eyre doesn't seem to be troubled that she has no family. Noone in the world outside of Thornfield who wishes her well.

No. I have no family to speak of.

But I hear you have been making plans of your own.

I assume Miss Blanche's departure from Thornfield is only temporary.

I mean as Ad?le's governess it's my duty to help you decide on a suitable school. Yes. Yes, indeed.

And we mustn't forget that when I do finally relinquish my bachelor ways we must find you a suitable position.

What do you think of Ireland?

We don't have to worry about that, now.

Oh, for good worried.

Oh, look! Look!

See the emerald wings?

Come.

To define the half of anything we divide into two equal parts.

In English, please, Ad?le.

I think it must be francais, Miss Eyre, surely it must be.

What do you think?

A beauty, isn't it?

Do you think it will do for Mrs Rochester?

Won't she look like queen Boadicea leaning back on those purple cushions? You know, Jane.

I wish I were a little better suited in matching her in looks.

Tell me, magician that you are...

Are you absolutely sure you don't have a potion to make me more handsome? I have told you before.

That would be past the power of magic, sir.

Come, Ad?le.

Mr Rochester, I want you to tell me about the Caribbean islands again.

Sophie has taught me a song.

All right. All right, incorrigible woman.

You must imagine a restaurant.

No, a day meeting place.

There are many respectable people who come here at night to socialize.

You must imagine brilliant reds.

Pinks, the most exotic perfumed flowers.

Delightful passionate music.

The women are of course very beautiful.

They wear bright silks.

Ambers, saphires, emeralds.

They are very seductive, but they are also mysterious.

Tantalizing, dangerous.

Stop that noise.

I'll send you to school in the morning, you're like a wild animal.

Caribbean is not as beautiful as it seems, Ad?le.

I came back to escape.

Summer's been with us forever this year.

I can't remember one that stayed so long.

And Mr Rochester has stayed with it.

He has never been here in Thornfield for this length of time.

He's found something to keep him from his travels.

Mind you, I think there must have been a little disagreement.

Really? Ingram Park is not very far away.

For a suitor... And yet he has not saddled the horse for several weeks.

He spends his evenings out talking to you or prowling below in the gardens like a bear. Of course he's got the household business to worry about.

What do you mean? Well, he'll be wanting to find you suitable positions. For after the wedding.

You know he will take care over that, I'm sure. I've told you he's a good master.

Thornfield is pleasant in the summer, isn't it, Jane?

Yes, sir.

You've become attached to the place.

Yes, sir.

And you'll be sad to leave?

Yes.

Must I leave, sir? Must I leave Thornfield?

Yes, I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you must.

You're to be married?

Exactly.

Precisely.

As you with your usual acuteness have already predicted,

when I do marry Ad?le must find a schoool and you must find a new situation. Yes, sir, I'll advertise immediately. No, you won't.

I've already found you a place.

Ireland is a long way away, sir.

From Thornfield. It is a long way away from you, sir.

We've been good friends, haven't we, Jane?

It's difficult to part from a friend and know you'll never meet him again.

And you and I, it's like we were a pair of Ashton's twins.

Bound together in some unworldly way, sharing a spirit or so the like.

When we are parted, when you...

... leave me, I believe that bond will snap, and I will bleed inwardly.

But you'll forget me after a while. I would never forget you!

How can you imagine that?

What do you think I am?

I wish I'd never been born, I wish I'd never come here.

I wish I'd never grow to love Thornfield.

I love Thornfield.

I love it because I have lived a full life...

I've not been trampled on.

I've been treated as an equal.

You have treated me as an equal.

You are the best person I know and I cannot bear the thought of having to leave you. Must you leave me, Jane? Oh, of course I must, because you have a wife. What do you mean?

Blanche Ingram, of course, you're as good as married to her.

You've promised, sir. I have not promised Blanche anything.

It's a someone who is inferior to you.

Someone who you have no sympathy with. Of course I must go.

Do you think that I'm a machine? That I can bear it?

Do you think because I'm poor...

... plain, obscure and little...

... that I have no heart?

That I'm without soul?

I have as much heart as you and as much soul.

And if God had given me some beauty and wealth...

... I would make it as hard for you to leave me as it is for me to leave you. You'll not leave me, Jane. Let me go.

Jane, don't struggle so.

I'm a free person, and I'll go and do as I please.

Yes, yes you will. You will decide your own destiny.

Jane, I offer you my hand, my heart and all my possessions.

You laugh at me. No, no.

Jane, I want you to live with me.

To pass through life as my second self.

My best earthly companion.

Jane, have you not faith in me?

None whatsoever. You doubt me?

Absolutely!

Jane, you know I don't love Blanche.

I love you-

as my own flesh.

Jane, say that you will marry me. Say it quickly.

Jane, do you accept me?

Are you in earnest?

I can hardly believe you.

I swear.

Then, sir... Call me by my name, call me Edward.

Then Edward, I will marry you.

God, forgive me.

And let no man meddle with me.

I am to keep her. There is no one to meddle.

I have no family to interfere.

No.

Go on and take off these wet things.

Good night.

Good night, my darling.

I feel so astonished.

I hardly know what to say to you, Miss Eyre.

Mr Rochester came in here about five minutes ago

to tell me that he had asked you to marry him.

Oh, this cannot be true.

But, why?

I'm sorry to offend you, Jane. But you are so young, you know nothing of men. Well, I've noticed that Mr Rochester seemed to make you a favourite... But I thought... That I was too monstrous to love?

No, I meant, I thought you too level-headed.

Too sensible a young woman to be so overwhelmed.

Overwhelmed?

Well, are you overwhelmed?

I believe the good woman thought I had forgotten my station. And you yours. Little does she know that I am the servant and you are the mistress... I'm sorry, I know that look.

She thinks I do not know myself and that you are doing as all men must. Jane, she doesn't know us.

All the same, sir. Sir? When did I become sir again?

Last night you stood before the heavens and pronounced yourself my equal. That's the Jane I want to marry, to share my life.

Would you dine with me tonight? No, sir.

Edward, you promised to call me Edward.

Until we marry, if we marry... In one month, one short month... You'll be Mrs Rochester or I'll be damned.

Then, until that morning I'll call you Mr Rochester.

It is halfway between Edward and sir.

I'll continue to teach Ad?le, we'll go on as before.

And then we'll see if this idea, this...

Marriage... is a sensible proposition.

I'm not interested in pleasing Mrs Fairfax.

But for you... For you I will obey.

Now hurry up and get your bonnet, or we'll be late. For what?

We're going to town.

Ah, no, no. You're not coming. Out of there now.

Oh please let me come Miss Eyre! No!

Absolutely non.

Jane and I... Miss Eyre and I are going shopping by ourselves. Shopping? Were you listening to a word I said? Just today!

To celebrate.

For come, you cannot get married in that!

I will not be married at all if you force me into that ridiculous carriage!

John, bring up the other carriage.

And Ad?le shall come too.

No.

I'll send her to school yet!

But shall I go without mademoiselle? Absolutely SANS mademoiselle. I will take mademoiselle away.

To Europe first...

... where I will take her to all the grand palaces.

I will present her to all the kings and queens.

You cannot do that, because she has no jewels.

Oh she will have. In London there's a very special box.

Filled with jewels. I will send for them immediately

And mademoiselle will be covered in them from head to toe

while she teaches you mathematics.

And when Madame as she will be then when Madame...

Is tired of all those kings and queens...

I will take her to a villa

white-washed and secluded...

On the edge of the emerald Mediterranean...

Yes, this will do very well.

We need at least six daydresses.

Choose the evening garments.

We'll need three at most.

And this for the veil.

Even Ad?le would draw a line at that.

There.

This is much more suitable.

Now, evening dresses.

For mademoiselle. What do you think?

No?

This is for mademoiselle.

The child knows you better than I do...

We take it.

Jane Eyre will not be overwhelmed.

Miss Eyre, you will really be going to Miniterre for the wedding?

Yes.

You'll stay the night at the Contlander Hotel and then take the steamboat to France? Yes.

I wish I could go with you.

You must stay here.

But don't worry, Mr Rochester...

We will pick out a good school for you.

They will hit me and starve me? No.

I promise that will never happen.

Go!

Who's there?

Who is it?

George, what time did the master say he'll be home?

Don't worry, miss. He's been away one night already.

He will not stay away another.

So I'm only gone for twenty-four hours, and I return to this?

You can't do without me, clearly.

Is anything wrong?

It was not Sophie.

It was not Mrs Fairfax. It was not even Grace Pool.

What, you were dreaming.

I had been dreaming, but then I awoke.

Thank God nothing worse happened.

Thank God you're safe.

It was not Grace Pool. Who else could it have been?

I was not dreaming.

And the rest of your dream?

Thornfield a neglected ruin?

And I left you without so much as a word. No.

I'm sorry.

Put it down to your anxieties.

Your natural anxieties about the new life you're about to enter.

Yesterday I was very busy and happy packing. I was not worried about the future. I think it a glorious thing to have the hope of living with you.

Because I love you...

It was a fine day, yesterday.

Look.

The storm is gone.

Here we are. Miss. Wait.

That's it. Thank you, Sophie

Wait a minute Miss.Look at you.

You're so beautiful.

Madam

At last, there you are.

How could I have thought that that gaudy veil would have suited you better. Is John getting the carriage ready? Yes, sir.

Is the luggage brought down?

Yes, sir. Good.

Have it strapped and ready on the carriage.

We're leaving the moment we return from the church. Yes, sir.

I'm sorry, Jane.

Are you ready?

I require and charge you both, as you will answer on the dreadful day of judgement... ... that the secrets of all hearts shall be discloses...

... that if either of you know any impediment why you may not lawfully be joined in matrimony, you do now confess it.

Are you well assured that so many as a couple together

otherwise than God's word has allowed...

... are not joined together by God, neither is their matrimony lawfull.

The marriage cannot go on.

I declare the existence of an impediment.

Proceed!

I said, proceed!

I cannot proceed without some investigation.

Perhaps it might be got over, explained away. I hardly think so. It is insuperable. Mr Rochester has a wife now living.

Who are you? My name's Briggs, a solicitor.

And you enthrust on me a wife. I would remind you of her existence, sir. Which the law recognizes, if you do not.

I have no wife.

Edward Fairfax Rochester of Thornfield Hall...

... was married to Bertha Antoinetta Mason...

... at St. Benedict's church in Spanishtown, Jamaica...

On the eighteenth day of March, 1825.

If that is a genuine document

it doesn't prove that the woman mentioned there is still living.

She was living three months ago. I have a witness to the fact.

What have you to say?

What have you to say? Gentlemen, this is a place of God.

My sister is living at Thornfield Hall.

I saw here there last June.

Impossible.

I'm an old resident of this neighbourhood, sir.

I've never heard of a Mrs Rochester at Thornfield Hall.

No, by God!

I took care that none would.

Enough, that is enough.

Clear the church, there will be no wedding today.

Before you go, however...

... I beg you to come up to the house...

... I've someone I wish you to meet.

Take it back to the coach-house, John.

It won't be needed, today. Very good, sir.

Away with your congratulations!

They're fifteen years too late.

Do you remember this room, Mason?

Where you almost lost your life?

Good morning, Mrs Pool.

How is your charge, this morning? A little touchy, sir.

We were having some breakfast, but she's calm now. Will you be very careful, sir? Aren't I always, Grace?

We'd better leave.

Why, Richard? Why, are you frightened?

Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to my wife?

Just leave quickly, sir, and she will be calm again.

Lock the door.

That was my wife.

As some of you know, my father was a greedy man,

who wanted to preserve his estate by marrying his younger son off,

to a wife who would bring him a rich dowry.

I was sent to the Caribbean, where...

... knowing my predilection for dark, handsome women...

I was tricked by Mason and his father into pursuing his sister, Bertha,

who was as beautiful as the glittering stars, and just as tantalizing.

I was married before I knew it.

Before I had met the mother

who was, I found out later at that time, and had been...

for many years incarcerated in a mental asylum, and that insanity ran through the family like a black river of disease.

I didn't spend half a day before I realized what manner of wife I had been tricked into. It was but a few weeks before the full extent of her illness was made clear to me. An illness which has grown

in violence and foulness at an ever increasing base.

Then, certainly right for his wickedness, my father died.

And my brother straight behind, so I...

I inherited everything anyway.

The Rochester fortune intact.

I brought her back with me to England

intending to make Thornfield a comfortable prison for her and for me.

I've another house

hidden away, I could have kept her there.

But the damp being inclement there might have ridden me of her burden.

I could've done that, noone could've blamed me.

But I left her here.

With Grace.

While I travelled the world trying to forget the horrors at home.

Until one day...

... one day this...

... girl appeared, who knew nothing of this...

This girl.

Who stands so quiet and grave at the mouth of hell.

This girl.

Who is all quietness, and sanity,

and innocence.

Do you wonder why I wanted her?

Why I risked the oath to God to get her?

And now I must ask you to leave.

I must see to my wife.

Jane?

Jane.

Forgive me.

I couldn't tell you, I knew you'd never stay.

Jane, come away with me.

We'll go and live together, and quite pushed for ever away from everyone. You have no family to care.

To interfere with us.

Jane.

Jane, can you hear me?

Jane.