What are Jane's feelings as she returns to Thornfield in Jane Eyre?

The answer to this question can be found in Chapter
Thirty-Six, when Jane leaves Moor House, which had been a sanctuary for her, to return
to Thornfield Hall and a very uncertain future, knowing nothing of what has transpired
with her former master and lover, Edward Rochester. It is clear however, that in spite
of this uncertainty, Jane is exultant to be returning. Note the simile that is used to
describe her feelings as she leaves Moor House:

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Once more on the road to Thornfield, I felt like
the messenger-pigeon flying
home.

Clearly the way that
Jane identifies herself with a messenger-pigeon indicates her own sense of identifying
with Thornfield Hall, and, much more importantly, its owner. In addition, note how her
walk back to Thornfield Hall is described:

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There was the stile before me--the very fields
through which I had hurried, blind, deaf, distracted, with a revengeful fury tracking
and scourging me, on the morning I fled from Thornfield: ere I knew what course I had
resolved to take, I was in the midst of them. How fast I walked! How I ran sometimes!
How I looked forward to catch the first view of the well-known woods! With what feelings
I welcomed single trees I knew, and familiar glimpes of meadow and hill between
them!

The sense of excitement
and aniticpation is obvious through the repeated exclamations that describe her joy of
returning, compared to the way in which she was forced to flee Thornfield so long
ago.