The phantom

Rochester: What is it? Jane Eyre with nothing to say? Jane Eyre: Everything seems unreal. Rochester: I am real enough. Jane Eyre: You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all. Jane Eyre: Am I a machine with out feelings? Do you think that because I am poor, plain, obscure, and little that I am souless and heartless? I have as much soul as you and full as much heart. And if God had possessed me with beauty and wealth, I could make it as hard for you to leave me as I to leave you... I'm not speaking to you through mortal flesh. It is my spirit that addresses your spirit, as it passes throguh the grave and stood at God's feet equal. As we are. Jane Eyre: I should never mistake informality for insolence. One, I rather like; the other, no free-born person would submit to, even for a salary. Edward Rochester: Humbug! Most free-born people would submit to anything for a salary. Edward Rochester: Are you always drawn to the loveless and unfriended? Jane Eyre: When it's deserved.