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“ Show me what is right , and show me the way , ” I prayed . The house was very quiet , the candle was burning low , and the moon shone into the room . Suddenly my heart began to beat fast , and a strange feeling went through my whole body . Then I heard a voice . It was not in the room , or in the house , or in the garden . It came from far away , and yet it was close to me . It was the voice of Edward Rochester , and it was full of pain . “ Jane ! Jane ! Jane ! ” “ I am coming ! ” I cried . “ Wait for me ! Oh , I will come ! ” I ran to the door and looked out into the garden , but there was nobody there . The night was still , and the moor was empty under the moon . I turned to St John and told him firmly to leave me . He went , and I locked myself in my room and prayed . But I knew now what I had to do . XV . Ferndean Early the next morning St John left for Cambridge . I told Diana and Mary that I had to go away for a few days . I took the coach to Thornfield , a journey of thirty - six hours , and all the way I wondered what I would find . When I reached Thornfield , I walked across the fields towards the house , as I had done that June evening a year before . My heart was beating fast . Then I looked up and stopped , because Thornfield Hall was a black ruin . There had been a terrible fire . The roof had fallen in , the windows were empty holes , and only the blackened walls were still standing . I hurried back to the inn in the village and asked the innkeeper what had happened . He had once been a servant of Mr Rochester’s father , but he did not know who I was . “ It happened last autumn , ” he said . “ Mr Rochester had a mad wife who was kept in the house , though nobody knew about her . There was a young governess at the Hall , and the master fell in love with her . But she ran away , and nobody knew where she went . After she had gone , Mr Rochester became wild and hard . He sent Mrs Fairfax away to her friends and put the little French girl in a school . Then he shut himself up in the house like a hermit . ” “ And how did the fire begin ? ” “ One night the mad lady escaped from her room while her nurse was asleep . She set fire to the governess’s old bed , and soon the whole house was burning . Mr Rochester got all the servants out , and then he went back up to the roof to save his wife . She was standing on the roof and shouting , with her long black hair streaming in the flames . He called to her and went towards her , but she gave a great cry and jumped . The next moment she lay dead on the stones below . ” I asked him if Mr Rochester was alive .
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