The Secrets Out

Sleeping at night has been very difficult; the creaky floor board outside my door should be replaced.  Last night I got up out of bed to tell the maid to stop walking around at night to find a strange figure, she had long dark hair that was tangled and ratted; she was wearing a gown that could a pristine white if it wasn’t for the dirt that hung to the skirt. She wasn’t wearing a maid’s outfit so I knew that she wasn’t. I got frightened and ran back up stairs and hugged myself to sleep.

The next morning I heard people whispering, nobody would tell me anything. The maids dare to hide secrets from me! I dragged one of the kitchen maids aside and questioned her, I then found out that there is someone living in the basement of the house and her name is Bertha. She is the wife of Mr Rochester and he thought that if he could keep this dirty little secret, he could still get away with marrying another woman.  I always knew there was someone else living here, the whispers in the night and the crashes caused by thin air. How could Mr Rochester do this to Jane? Maybe this is why she ran away! Oh, how I wish she could come home and be with us again.