#13

Poor Jane!! Its bad enough she has to leave her job and the crazy, selfish, married man that she loves just to get over him, but now, she is left out on the street without food or shelter. She has no job, no money, and is a complete stranger in the town that she has just arrived in. She sleeps outside on the first night and must spend a cold night on a moss bed in the middle of a field. She doesn’t deserve this. No one deserves to suffer like she has, without anyone to comfort, protect her, or even lend a shoulder for her to lean on. She is completely alone, and does not have a single person she can rely on in the world. She spends the first days in the town wondering about asking for work and scraps of food but no one bothers to help her or even point her in the right direction as to where she can go to find work. Hungry, weak, and tired she stumbles onto the St John household where a clergyman, Mr. Rivers, and his two sisters, Mary and Diana live. The place is called Moorhouse, and the time that Jane spends here are some of her happiest. The sisters care for her and nurse her back to health while she helps around the house. Mr. Rivers is even nice enough to help Jane find a job and they are all worried about her wellbeing. She grows fond of them as they enjoy her company, but as all good things in Jane’s life come to a halt, this is no exception.