"Whatever he told you, he told you to hurt you, Rose," the Doctor says, firmly. "Connecting isn't---it isn't---well, it is, but it isn't. It was the easiest way to show her, to understand her. She's a ridiculously un-understandable individual!"

He pulls his hand back, hurt by her movement. He knows he shouldn't be. It's his fault she was hurt in the first place, and his fault that the Master had that ammunition to injure her with.