"Before I left my bed in the morning, little Adele came running in to tell me that the great horse-chestnut at the bottom of the orchard had been struck by lightning in the night, and half of it split away." (Bronte 259).
This passage serves as foreshadowing. At this point in the novel, Jane and Mr. Rochester have just been engaged to be married, and are just awaiting their wedding. The tree under which the two had been sitting when they had arranged the marriage had suddenly been hit by lightning, and its two parts, signifying Jane and Mr. Rochester, had been wrenched apart, as the lovers were about to be by a catastrophe as great as a bolt of lightning.
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