And I clasped my arms closer round Helen; she seemed dearer to me than ever; I felt as if I could not let her go; I lay with my face hidden on her neck. Presently she said in the sweetest tone, – “How comfortable I am! That last fit of coughing has tired me a little; I feel as if I could sleep: but don’t leave me, Jane; I like to have you near me.”
“I’ll stay with you, dear Helen: no one shall take me away.”
“Are you warm, darling?”
“Yes.”

– Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre, Chapter 9. In this very moving and heartbreaking passage, Jane and Helen Burns speak their final farewell words and kiss each other goodnight. Jane has climbed into Helen’s bed to be with her in her last moments before she succumbs to tuberculosis.