I'm not sure how this happened either.

I’m almost not sure what to write. Or how to explain this in a way that seems believable. But, somehow, impossibly, I am engaged to Edward Rochester! I'm so happy, I can hardly write. But we had an interesting chat in the garden, which started off with us discussing his marriage to Miss Ingram, and somehow ended in us declaring our mutual love. I thought he was joking at first, but then he told me that he had never intended to marry Blanche. That she also no longer wanted to marry him (as he had spread rumors that he wasn't actually that wealthy).

I don't even know what's happening. I just know I've never been so happy in my entire life.

As a side note, there was an enormous thunderstorm last night, and the tree in the garden was struck by lightening. It was rather unnerving.