Author's Note: "he went into the attics when all was burning above and below, and got the servants out of their beds and helped them down himself - and went back to get his mad wife out of her cell. And then they called out to him that she was on the roof; where she was standing...I saw her and heard her with my own eyes. She was a big woman, and had long, black hair: we could see it streaming against the flames as she stood. I witnessed, and several more witnessed Mr. Rochester ascend through the skylight on to the roof; we hear him call "Bertha!" We saw him approach her; and then, ma'am, she yelled, and gave a spring, and the next minute she lay smashed on the pavement." (Jane Eyre - Volume 3, Chapter 36)