Although it may seem difficult to find a positive consequence for Rochester keeping this enormous secret, it is actually one of the most significant consequences of the novel; The relationship between Jane and Rochester. If Rochester decided not to keep his wife a secret in the attic, Jane would never allow herself to fall in love with Rochester, just as Jane would not fall in love with a married man. This is proven when Jane leaves Rochester after hearing this secret, making her departure a duty. "[Jane] must give up loving an idol. A dreary word has compromised [her] intolerable] duty – 'Go away!'" (Bronte 335). Therefore, Jane leaving Rochester is the negative consequence of her secret; neither is Jane neither Rochester wants to separate, but it must be done Overall, without Rochester's secret of having a wife kept in the attic, he is, as a positive consequence of the secret, able to fall in love with Jane, and. she from him. , Jane leaves Rochester because his secret deceived her This secret and many others contribute to the fact that Jane Eyre's secrets contain both positive and negative..