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Jane receives a visit from Bessie, the maid at the Reed house. She brings bad tidings: Mrs. Reed is dying and asking for Jane. As Jane drives away, she sees Rochester and Blanche out riding together and worries what might happen in her absence. Jane returns to Gateshead Hall, the scene of her childhood misery. Mrs. Reed is on her deathbed, following her son John's excessive debauchery and subsequent death. Her cousins, Eliza and Georgiana, treat Jane with great condescension. Georgiana has become extremely vain, whilst Eliza claims she will wash her hands of Georgiana after her mother's funeral and spend the rest of her life in a convent. Mrs. Reed raves in her delirium about Jane Eyre being a nightmare child. But in a more lucid moment, her true feeling of guilt about Jane becomes far clearer. Three years earlier, Mrs. Reed received a letter from Jane's uncle, John Eyre.