As Jane and Mr Rochester share a brief confabulation concerning sin, forgiveness, and redemption, Rochester invokes that he is a “trite commonplace sinner” with “plenty of faults” (118). Jane makes an effort to relate, but Rochester bitterly declares that she is a “neophyte that [has] not passed the porch of life,” too innocent to be tangled in mischief. Jane retorts with encouragement, “To speak truth, sir, I don't understand you at all: I cannot keep up the conversation, because it has got out of my depth. Only one thing I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own imperfection… It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve;
