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Mr Mason arrives, Jane is suspicious of him. The gypsy woman arrives. Ingram is disappointed by her visit to the gypsy. Jane is invited to see the gypsy, she goes.

Miss Ingram- Her charms aren’t working on Rochester, Jane thinks.

‘I was forgetting all his faults’ A sign of her love for Rochester, she hasn’t managed to control it yet, like she thinks she must, for her own sake.

Summary

Jane is an outsider, she doesn't join in their games yet she feels that she must be with them when Mr R summons her. She enjoys herself nevertheless. Mr Mason arrives, Jane is suspicious of him. The gypsy woman arrives. Ingram is disappointed by her visit to the gypsy. Jane is invited to see the gypsy, she goes.

Character

Lady Ingram makes snide comments and appears quite nasty.
Mr Rochester flirts with Miss Ingram when they play charades. Like mother like daughter.
Miss Ingram- Her charms aren’t working on Rochester, Jane thinks.

Interesting phrases/extracts

'She looks to stupid for any game of the sort.' Lady Ingram

'I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he ceased to notice me-' Readers feel very sorry for Jane, not only did he break her heart but he is now rubbing it in her face'

'Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite the feeling.' Jane has a complex about feeling inferior, she has been made to feel inferior throughout her life, as the reader has seen, she is now fighting back. I don't think it's very impressive, it's like a vicious circle, you feel/are amde to feel inferior and then when you finally don't have that problem anymore you decide to think of others as inferior? It doesn't make sense, it's idiotic.

‘I was forgetting all his faults’ A sign of her love for Rochester, she hasn’t managed to control it yet, like she thinks she must, for her own sake.