Page 294: Mr. Rochester declares himself "no better than the devil" for his deceit and attempted bigamy. It was not Grace who had done all the things but is was she who got the blame for Rochester's wife whom she was watching, Mrs. Rochester is crazy. It was Jane he sought for not as a foil to himself but as one of his wife. He will still desire Jane but certainly now nothing can happen of it.
Page 296: When Rochester's wife sees him she becomes incredibly aggressive but why him. Is it because he has her shut up or because of something else that now drives her rage. Perhaps it was all that Jane liked in Rochester that propels Mrs. Rochester into aggression. She attacks Rochester and there is a fierce struggle, he doesn't land a blow on her. It is still his duty to protect and take care of her.
Page 297: Jane doesn't feel as though she has taken the time to think but has only followed the current. Now she thinks and has concluded that nothing has changed, what she wanted most is now the thing she dreads most because she is back to being the lonely girl that is always surrounded by winter and desolate roads. Everything she held as beautiful, the roses, the trees, all of thornfield (Rochester exempted from the description) is now covered by cold. Jane's shell is back up round her and is extended to everything else. There is an allusion to the great flood that Jane feels surrounding her trying to kill off her sins. She will survive though because they are not her sins but others and she must again find her own happiness in the abbys that now surrounds her.
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