Jane Eyre Chapter XVI

In which we observe the quiet domestic stir occasioned by a late-night mishap at Thornfield Hall, and the inscrutable composure of the household’s mysterious attendant, Grace Poole, who provokes reflection and suspicion in our governess. Meanwhile, amidst whispered conjectures and gentle self-reproach, the narrator endeavours to discipline her own heart through the sober contrast of imagined and actual faces, striving for calm and reason in the face of inward tumult.