by Charlotte Bronte
Adapted for broadcasting in eleven episodes by Barbara Couper
[Starring] Belle Chrystall and Reginald Tate
The morning after Mr. Rochester's declaration of love, Jane found herself wondering whether she had been dreaming. However on receiving Mrs. Fairfax's somewhat surprised congratulations she realised that the events of the previous evening were indeed real. During a month of happy courtship Jane remembered the letter her uncle had sent from Madeira, and decided to write and inform him of her intended marriage with Mr. Rochester.
The night before her wedding, Jane was awakened by an apparition standing over her bed Its face, discoloured and savage, gazed upon her with ferocity. She became insensible from terror.
The next day at the church the wedding service was interrupted by the reappearance of Mr. Mason with a solicitor, who declared the marriage unlawful as Mr. Rochester had a wife now living. Back at his home Mr. Rochester revealed that Mr. Mason's sister, Bertha Mason, was indeed his wife, though a maniac confined to Thornfield Hall and guarded night and day by Grace Poole