In the moment he is announcing his engagement to Miss Ingram, Rochester says (after Jane says that a new situation will be a long way "from you, sir") "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you--especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land came braod between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapped; and then I've a nervous notion that I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you--you'll forget me"