[00:00.25]Chapter 8.
[00:03.87]Miss Temple.
[00:08.64]By the time my half hour's over, the rest of the school had gone to tea.
[00:14.69]I crept into a corner and cried.
[00:17.96]I had just begun to do well at Lowood, and Miss Temple had that day promised to teach me drawing and French.
[00:26.41]Now I had been crushed and trodden on.
[00:31.32]Certain that I would never be happy, I wished to die.
[00:40.32]Somebody was coming in.
[00:43.24]It was Helen bringing my bread and coffee, but I was crying too hard to eat.
[00:51.69]They all hate me, I sobbed.
[00:54.88]Of course not, she said.
[00:58.70]Nobody likes Mr. Brocklehurst.
[01:04.54]If he had made a pet of you, that would have turned everyone against you.
[01:12.21]Besides, Jane, what would it matter if all the world hated you when you know you are innocent?
[01:24.36]Then her coughing became so bad, she had to stop talking.
[01:33.59]Miss Temple came in and seated herself beside us.
[01:43.66]Have you finished crying? she asked.
[01:48.63]Yes, but everyone will think I am a liar now, I said.
[01:54.52]We will believe you to be what you show yourself to be, Jane, she said kindly.
[02:02.34]Come to my apartment and tell me your side of the story.
[02:11.89]In Miss Temple's room, I told her about Gates Head Hall.
[02:18.13]When I mentioned our doctor, she nodded.
[02:23.38]I know of him, she said.
[02:27.73]I will write to him, and if he agrees with your story, the whole school will be told you are innocent.
[02:40.24]I believe you.
[02:43.61]Then, sitting with her arm round me, she asked Helen about her cough, and whether she had any pain.
[02:53.66]She felt Helen's pulse and looked anxious.
[02:59.01]But then she smiled, rang a bell, and asked her servant to bring in tea.
[03:10.00]Everything was so pretty.
[03:14.73]We had tea and toast on delicate China, and she even brought out cake for us, which was something we hardly ever saw.
[03:29.38]When it was time to go, I noticed that she watched Helen sadly, and I saw a tear on my teacher's cheek.
[03:41.41]We went straight to the bedroom to find Miss Scatcherd inspecting each girl's drawer.
[03:49.85]Helen was severely scolded for the untidiness of her things.
[03:59.94]A week later, Miss Temple received a letter from the doctor supporting my version of events at Gateshead Hall.
[04:10.13]In front of the whole school, she announced that I was innocent of Mr. Brocklehurst's charges against me.
[04:21.65]I made a new start.
[04:25.94]I worked hard and began to study French and drawing, which I greatly loved.
[04:33.83]Lowood was becoming bearable.