Jane Eyre (1996 film) estate (and ultimately Mr. Rochester) with his wife, Bertha (Maria Schneider), who is mentally ill and kept locked away in an upstairs attic with a nurse, Grace Poole (Billie Whitelaw). The marriage is stopped by Bertha's brother Richard Mason (Edward de Souza) and lawyer Briggs (Peter Woodthorpe). Jane flees, her world crashing down is a nightmare. She recovers in the parsonage of her original aunt's home, discovers she is now a wealthy woman inheriting her long-lost uncle's fortune in Madeira. She gets a proposal of marriage from Parson St. John Rivers but her heart and soul is with Rochester. Jane
The Life of Nancy This story begins in a conversation between a contractor, Mr. Ferris and John Packer. The contractor comes to ask John packer if he would like to sell him two timber trees in his backyard. John is extremely irritable and refuses to sell them to the offer of $75. He says that he doesn’t care if they fall down and he can manage them himself, to which the contractor objects. John then decides to leave and notices two people looking at him from inside the house. The contractor claims that he will not raise his offer. In the next chapter, John