Ch. 19

1)Like the game of charades the group plays earlier, Rochester’'s disguised appearance suggests his disguised character

2)We again see Rochester leaning on Jane, for physical support, after hearing Richard Mason’'s name. This physical gesture represents his growing emotional need for her. Another mysterious character is presented; Richard Mason. Other than being described as a friend from the West Indies, it is not explained who he is.

Ch. 20

1)He tells her that he can use her help and asks whether she is afraid of blood. He leads her to the third story of the house and shows her Mr. Mason, who has been stabbed in the arm. Rochester asks Jane to stanch the wound and then leaves, ordering Mason and Jane not to speak to one another.-->

Mr. Mason’'s unexplained wounds, like the earlier mysterious fire in Rochester’'s bedroom, further the larger Gothic plot that will soon unfold

2)  Rochester tells Jane a hypothetical story about a young man who commits a “"capital error”" in a foreign country, then travels the world seeking solace in “"heartless, sensual pleasure”", until he returns to his home and meets a “" stranger much of the good and bright qualities which you have sought for twenty years.”"  He asks whether the young man would be justified in "overleaping an obstacle of custom." Jane’'s reply is that such a man should look to God for his redemption, not to another person-->

he attempts for the first time to talk with Jane about his past as they take a walk

together following Mason’'s stabbing. Although he speaks to Jane about his determination to redeem himself, his references to a grave error and a dissipated youth suggest that Jane risks great danger not only by continuing to live at Thornfield but by falling in love with him

Ch. 21

1)she has dreams on seven consecutive nights involving babies. She learns that her cousin John Reed has committed suicide, and that her aunt, Mrs. Reed, has suffered a stroke and is nearing death. Jane goes to Gateshead, where she is reunited with Bessie. She also sees her cousins Eliza and Georgiana. Eliza is a rigid church goer, and retreats from conversation. Georgiana is plump, lazy, talks about herself constantly and complains of being bored.

2) Mrs. Reed gives Jane a letter from her father’'s brother, John Eyre. He declares that he wishes to adopt Jane and bequeath her his fortune. The letter is three years old; out of malice,

Mrs. Reed did not forward it to Jane when she received it.