[00:00.00] Chapter three, the doctor.
[00:03.72] I woke feeling as if I had just had a nightmare.
[00:08.56] But somebody slipped an arm gently round me and helped me sit up.
[00:14.57] I was in my own bed, and Mr. Lloyd, the doctor, was talking to me, telling me I would be well.
[00:25.11] As long as he was beside me, I felt safe.
[00:31.83] Bessie too came and asked me if I wanted anything.
[00:39.06] All this gentleness astonished me.
[00:43.60] Nobody had been kind to me before.
[00:49.76] I was allowed out of bed the next day, feeling weak and anxious.
[00:55.67] I did not know what would happen next.
[00:59.98] Bessie was still kind and sang to me, but the song was a sad one and made me cry.
[01:08.76] When the doctor came again, he noticed I had been crying.
[01:14.64] Do you like Gateshead Hall? he asked, after Bessie had gone.
[01:23.04] I hate it, I said.
[01:26.09] I wish I could get away.
[01:29.94] Would you like to go to school? he asked.
[01:36.32] I knew very little about school, but I knew that girls learned to sing and draw there, and I thought I would like that.
[01:46.07] Anything must be better than Gateshead Hall.
[01:51.56] Yes, I should like it, I said.
[01:58.22] At that moment, I heard the carriage on the gravel outside, and Mr. Lloyd, saying he must speak to Mrs. Reed, went away.
[02:09.61] Nothing else was said to me that day about school, but I heard Bessie and Miss Abbot talking in the nursery when they thought I was asleep.
[02:22.44] Mrs. Reed will be glad to get rid of Jane Air, said Miss Abbott.
[02:29.41] That child always looks as if she's plotting something.
[02:37.64] Why is she living here? asked Bessie.
[02:44.59] I listened carefully.
[02:47.48] Nobody had ever told me this.
[02:52.88] Her mother was Mr. Reed's sister, said Miss Abbott.
[03:00.67] She married a nearly penniless clergyman, and her father was furious and had nothing more to do with her.
[03:11.05] They went away to work among poor people, caught typhoid and died when Miss Jane was a baby, so she was sent here.
[03:24.47] Poor little Jane, sighed Bessie.
[03:28.48] Yes, if she were a pretty little darling like Miss Georgiana, you'd feel sorry for her, said Miss Abbott.
[03:37.84] Shall we go and have supper?