After a joyless and hungry childhood in a school orphanage, she seemed doomed to poverty and hardship. But her energetic, free-spirited nature led her to service in a wealthy castle, and her deep inner qualities won the love of the master of that castle. Dreams came true, and the governess of no pedigree was about to become an aristocrat. Yet to tie her life to Count Rochester, Jane Eyre will have to forget her own ideas of honor.