Summary of Chapters 18-22

Several days have passed and the guest are still at Thornfield. Jane believes that Blanche and Rochester will be married soon, because of how how they interact with each other; even though she can tell that they are not in love. If they were to get married Jane thinks Blanche would only marry him for his money, and he would only marry her for her beauty and social position.
One day, a man by the name of Mr. Mason arrives to Gateshead from the West Indies. From the very start Jane dislikes him for his vacant eyes and his slowness. But from him she learns that Rochester once lived in the West Indies too. Several days following that visit a gypsy woman arrives to Thornfield to tell the guests' fortunes. Blanche decides to go first and as she is returning back from her talk with the gypsy she looks disappointed.

After overcoming her doubtfulness, Jane then decides to go into the library. To Janes surprise the Gypsy woman seems to know a lot about her, and tells her that she is very close to happiness. The gypsy woman also shares with Jane that she told Blanche Ingram that Rochester is not as wealthy as he seems,which was the reasoning for her gloomy mood. As the woman is reading Janes fortune, her voice slowly begins to deepen, thereby making Jane realize that the gypsy woman is Rochester in disguise.
Jane addresses Rochester for tricking her, because all along she had thought the gypsy was Grace Poole.
Jane then shares with Mr.Rochester that a stranger, by the name of Mr. Mason had arrived since he had left in the morning. Improbably, Rochester looks troubled.

That same night, Jane hears a hasty cry for help. After running into the hallways, where Rochester is, he assures everyone that a servant has had a nightmare. Reprieved, everyone returns to their beds. And after Rochester knocks at Jane's door to ask her for her help and if she is afraid of blood. After being lead to the third story of the house, Rochester shows her to Mr. Mason who has been stabbed in the arm. Rochester asks Jane to halt the wound, and demands that she and Mr. Mason not communicate in any shape or form. as demanded, no words are exchanged between Jane and Mason, therefore, in silence, Jane stares among the room. She notices images of the apostles and christ cricifixion that is painted on the cabinet across from her.
Rochester then returns to the room, with a surgeon who tends to Mr. Mason's wounds, as he sends Jane to convey some potion.When Jane arrives back with the potion, Mr. Rochester gives it to Mason adaging that it will give him heart for an hour.
After Mason vacates, Jane and Rochester slaunter in the orchard, and Rochester tells Jane a speculative story about a young man who commits a “capital error”in a foreign country and proceeds to lead a life of dissipation in an effort to “obtain relief.” he says that the young man then hopes to redeem himself and live morally with a wife, but convention prevents him from doing so. Rochester then asks Jane whether the young man would be justified in “overleaping an obstacle of custom.” Jane’s answer is that such a man should look to God for his redemption, not to another person. Rochester, who obviously has been describing his own situation, asks Jane to reassure him that marrying Blanche would bring him salvation. He then hurries away before she has a chance to say anything else.

Jane has heard that it is a bad thing to dream of children and now she has dreams on seven back-to-back nights involving babies. She learns that her cousin John Reed has committed suicide and that her Aunt Reed has suffered from a stroke and is nearly dead. Jane then returns back to Gateshead, where she is reunited with Bessie. She also sees her other cousins Eliza and Georgiana. Eliza is still plain, and plans to enter a convent soon, while Georgina is a beautiful as ever. Jane learns that ever since Eliza ruined Georgina's chances of running way with a young man, the sisters haven't gotten along. Jane tries to resolve things with Mrs. Reed, but her aunt is still full of hostility towards her late husbands favourite. 

Jane stays at Gateshead for a month because Georgiana dreads being alone with her sister, Eliza. But eventually Georgiana goes to London to live with her uncle, while Eliza finally joins the convent in France. After some time Eliza becomes the Mother Superior of her convent and Georgiana marries a wealthy man. While still at Gateshead Jane receives a letter from Mrs. Fairfax. The letter states that Rochester's guests' have left and that Rochester has gone to London to buy a new carriage which became a clear sign to her that he and Blanche are in fact, getting married. As Jane is travelling back to Thornfield, she becomes anxious and does not anticipate seeing Rochester again. Yet she worries what will become of her after his marriage. Surprisingly as she is leaving for the Millcote Station she encounters Rochester. He questions her about why she had stayed away from Thornfield for so long and Jane replies by saying " I have been with my aunt, sir, who is dead." Rochester then asks Jane about his carriage and tells her "You must see the carriage, Jane, and tell me if you don't think it will suit Mrs. Rochester exactly." After they exchange a few more words, Jane says " I am strangely glad to get back again to you; and where you are is my home-- my only home." When they arrive to the manor Mrs. Fairfax, Adele and the servants greet Jane warmly.