You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You are sick; because the best of feelings, the highest and the sweetest given to man, keeps far away from you. You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach, nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you.
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 19. A mysterious gypsy fortune teller appears at Thornfield Hall and tells Jane her fortune. The gypsy is later revealed as Rochester in disguise. In this passage Rochester teases Jane about her feelings for him, suggesting that she is to blame for her loneliness and suffering. It is clear that Rochester’s masquerade, in which he changes gender and class, is done to manipulate Jane and trick her into giving information about her feelings for him.