Jane Eyre (1973)

Michael Jayston: Edward Rochester

Quotes 

• Edward Rochester : A true Janian reply! Good angels be my guard! She comes from the other world: from the abode of people who are dead and tells me so here, alone. If I dared, I'd touch you to see if you were substance or shadow. Truant! Truant! Absent from me a whole month- and forgetting me quite, I'll be sworn!

• Edward Rochester : My bride is here, because my equal is here and my likeness!

• Edward Rochester : So you were waiting for your people when I saw you in the land.

  Jane Eyre : For whom sir?

  Edward Rochester : For the men in green. It was a proper moonlit evening for them. Did I break through one of your rings that you spread that damned ice on the causeway?

  Jane Eyre : The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago. Not even in Hay Lane or the fields about it would you find a trace of them. I don't think summer, harvest, or winter moon will ever shine on their revels more.

• Jane Eyre : Oh sir, it is past eleven o'clock. I must go.

  Edward Rochester : No, stay. I am not here, remember. So we are free.

  Jane Eyre : Oh, but Miss Ingram is expecting your return from business this evening.

  Edward Rochester : [takes Jane's hand]  What if she does?

• Blanche Ingram : [enters the library with a billiards cue]  Ah, there you are Signor Eduardo. I insist you play!

  Edward Rochester : Uno momento, Donna Bianca.

  [gives Jane her purse back] 

  Blanche Ingram : Surely you can deal with that person later, Mr. Rochester.

  Edward Rochester : [turns towards Blanche]  I am engaged Miss Ingram. I shall come to you when I'm at liberty.

  [Blanche storms off in a huff] 

• Edward Rochester : Here, take your wages.

  Jane Eyre : But that is fifty pounds, sir! You owe me but fifteen. I have no change.

  Edward Rochester : I don't want any change, you know that.

  Jane Eyre : I will not take it, sir.

  Edward Rochester : Obstinate!

  Jane Eyre : Yes.

  Edward Rochester : Right. I'd better not give you all at once you may stay away three months. There is ten, is that enough?

  Jane Eyre : Plenty, sir. Oh but now you owe me five.

  Edward Rochester : Come back for it then, I will be your banker.

• Edward Rochester : Shall you come down after dinner tonight?

  Jane Eyre : Oh no sir, I must prepare for the journey.

  Edward Rochester : Then we must say goodbye now. For a little while.

  Jane Eyre : Yes, I suppose so.

  Edward Rochester : And how do people perform that ceremony? Teach me, I'm not quite up to it.

  Jane Eyre : They say farewell or any other form they prefer.

  Edward Rochester : Then say it.

  Jane Eyre : Farewell Mr. Rochester, for the present.

  Edward Rochester : And what must I say?

  Jane Eyre : The same.

  Edward Rochester : Farewell Miss Eyre, for the present. Is that all?

  Jane Eyre : Yes.

  Edward Rochester : It seems stingy to my notions, and dry and unfriendly. If one shook hands...

  [pauses] 

  Edward Rochester : No, that would not content me either.

  [pauses] 

  Edward Rochester : Farewell Jane.

  Jane Eyre : Your back is to the door sir.

  Edward Rochester : [Glances behind him at the closed door. Looks on Jane again]  So it is.

  [Then opens it for Jane and lets her pass]