, and fear of unexplained demoniac events that have occurred within the house. Jane settles into her new position with ease. To alleviate her boredom during the winter months she offers to mail a letter for Mrs. Fairfax. While Jane is out on her errand, she encounters a man on a horse, who Mrs. Fairfax identifies later as Edward Rochester, the master of Thornfield Hall. Rochester and Jane have numerous encounters in which they share details of their lives. The result of these encounters and conversations are the development of romantic feelings toward each other, which neither readily acknowledges to the other. However, it is Jane's anger in the form of passion that is the catalyst causing both to reveal their feelings of love. Believing he is taking Blanch Ingram as his bride, a young woman he has been courting, Jane tells Rochester, "I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you. . . .an automaton? - a machine without feelings?" (645) Upon hearing Jane's words Rochester reveals his true feelings to her and asks her to marry him stating, "it is you only I intend to marry. . . . My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?" (646) Unable to believe what she hears she asks, "Are you in earnest? - Do you truly love me? Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?" (647) Rochester confirms his love for Jane and she accepts his proposal. On the night before their wedding, Jane's dreams are disturbed; she wakes from her dream and finds a candle burning on her dressing table. She observes a woman with a savage face and red eyes exiting the closet holding her veil. The woman places the veil on her head and peers at herself in the mirror; she then removes the veil tearing it into two pieces and throws it to the floor. Frightened by this and other demonic events that have occurred in the house, Jane requests an explanation from Rochester. Unwilling to reveal the ...
