Jane Eyre V

Jane misses Rochester but she has now got a modest fortune and a home. However St John keeps trying to persuade her to marry him, and go to India as a missionary's wife. He does not love her, he is in love with a young woman who is well born but not suitable for the missions and he is so high minded that he gives up all hope of his love to take up a missionary post. Jane refuses. She wont marry a man she does not love. She wonders if she could go as his companion and sister, rather than his wife, but that does not seem possible. Then she hears Rochester's voice calling to her. She believes that he is trying to contact her. She decides to go back to Thornfield and talk to him. When she gets there, she finds that the house has been burned down and Rochester was burned and seriously injured in the fire. He had retired his housekeeper and sent Adele away to school, and then his wife burned the house. He tried to rescue her and was injured and blinded. Jane finds that Rochester is living in a smaller house he owns, and that he's a recluse. She goes to see him and tells him that she has come back. They talk and he's intrigued to find that she has now inherited a fortune and is a woman of substance while he has lost his house and is a semi invalid. He is at first reluctant to marry her when he is helpless but they agree to get married. Jane suggests that Adele be transferred to a less strict school. Rochester's mistress had abandoned the child as a baby,and he took care of her but he never believed she was his own daughter. The couple get married and settle in the smaller house, and Rochester's eyes improve so that he can see a bit. He and Jane have a son, and are a happy couple.