Who is Jane Rochester??

In the passage that you gave us in class, the one who is speaking is Rochester. He feels now guilty of trying to marry Jane while he is still married to Bertha, a Creole from Jamaica. Before the wedding, Jane was feeling uneasy about it; she had bad dreams and predicted something awful. One night, during her nightmares something woke her up, it was a woman/creature in her closet ripping her wedding veil in two. Since when all of this happened Rochester was out of town, Jane told him as soon as he arrived. However, he was not entirely truthful to her. The day went by and on the next morning when she was about to get married to Rochester, Mr Briggs (a stranger) stepped up during the ceremony declaring that Rochester was already married. After this they went to see his wife who was kept in seclusion away from everyone. Rochester declared that she was mad, she seemed like a wild animal. When they went to corroborate this, they all saw this creature he was talking about and why he had to marry her because of his father's plan and her fortune. Jane soon realizes that this creature was Mason's sister and it was her who stabbed mason the night he stayed at Thornfield. She learned that Bertha was guarded by Grace Poole. All of this information clears the mystery that we were having about a strange laugh and strange events happening in the house. However, in this passage, Rochester is telling Jane how he loves her and how he should have been true to her the whole time. That he feared that by telling her the truth he could not have had her, he refers to himself as coward.