You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands. Be sure that is the only tie he seriously acknowledges between you and him: so don’t make him the object of your fine feelings, your raptures, agonies, and so forth. He is not of your order: keep to your caste; and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 17. Jane’s inner struggle between her emotional feelings for Rochester and what logic tells her continues. She reminds herself that she is from a different social class and should not be developing romantic feelings for Rochester. He is her employer and she should be grateful to him for her job as governess, she tells herself.