Reading journal chapters 17-22

Summary
Jane hears that Rochester is to move away from Thornfield for around a year, when Rochester turns up at Thornfield with a number of guests. Blanche Ingram and her mother are amongst the guests and treat Jane cruely. Jane is forced to sit with them when she nearly bursts into tears and Rochester lets her leave. The guests stay at Thornfield a while and Jane decides that Rochester and Ingram are not in love. Mr Mason arrives at the house and Jane dislikes him for his slowness, but learns a little more about Mr Rochester and how he had lived in the west indies. A gypsie woman visits Thornfield one evening and tells the guests futures, Blanche is dissapointed. Jane then goes to get her fortune told, she learns she is very close to happiness, but soon finds out that the gypsie is in fact Mr Rochester in disguise. When Mr Rochester learns that Mr Mason had come he seems worried. That same night Jane is awoken by Mr Rochester running in the hallway, Jane goes out to find out what had happened and she is told to tend to Mr Mason who had been stabbed in the arm. Rochester tries to cover up the commotion by saying a servant had simply had a nightmare. Later that day Rochester tells Jane a story of a man who made an error in a foreign country and lives to redeem himself. Obviously telling the story of his own life he asks jane if marrying Blanche would make him happy. He hurries off before she can answer. Jane is having many dreams of young children and has learmed it is a bad omen, she then finds out that her cousin, John Reed has commited suicide and Mrs Reed is close to death. At this she goes back to gateshead and meet Bessie, her Aunt and her two cousins Eliza and Georgina. Jane tries to patch things up with her Aunt but she refuses. Jane learns that Mrs Reed had kept a letter from Janes uncle from her. The letter stated that Jane was to inherited a large sum of money. Jane made a last effort to make up with her aunt which was denied, and at midnight, Mrs Reed died.

I think that a theme of mystery comes up alot during these chapters. First we meet Mr Mason and wonder who he is, and why Mr Rochester acts so worried when he learns that he had arrived. We also want to know who the Gypsie is and what he had told Blanche. And finally we want to know what had happened to Mr Mason, that night he had been stabbed and why Jane was ordered not to talk to him.