e room. Jane faints from pure fear.
Jane wakes up in her own bedroom to Mr. Lloyd, the family doctor, and Bessie. Bessie expresses sadness for Jane's position. Then, Mr. Lloyd talks to Jane about possibly leaving Gateshead; he thinks that it would be best for her to go somewhere else. He suggests this to Mrs. Reed, and Jane gets very excited just at the thought of leaving the place that she hates so much. Later that day, Jane overhears a conversation between Bessie and Miss Abbot about her mother. They say that Jane's mother was born into a very wealthy family, and when she married Jane's father, a middle-class man, Jane's grandfather wrote his daughter out of his will. Soon after Jane was born, both of her parents died of typhus, a very deadly disease of that time period.
Two months after this incident, Mrs. Reed finally agrees to let Jane go to the school of Lowood, far away from Gateshead. Jane meets Mr. Brocklehurst, the man that runs the school. Mrs. Reed tells Mr. Brocklehurst that Jane has a tendency of lying and being untrustworthy. Mr. Brocklehurst says that he will most definitely make sure that everyone at the school knows this fact about Jane. After Mr. Brocklehurst leaves, Jane is extremely hurt by the things that Mrs. Reed said. Jane stands up for
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