[Hardy-l] Tess

[Rosemarie Morgan]

That's even better! For some reason I had always though it one very sacred 
night --

Thanks John
Rosemarie

At 01:06 PM 10/13/2008, you wrote:
>In a message dated 13/10/2008 18:58:29 GMT Daylight Time, 
>Rosemarie.morgan at yale.edu writes:
>If Pauline only saw the last episode then the "mansion" she refers to must
>surely be the site of "consummation" on the night before Tess's
>arrest.  Hardy didn't entitle this section "Fulfilment" for nothing. Nor,
>surely, would the cleaner have scurried away feeling she'd witnessed a most
>tender love scene had there been no intimacy?
>
>Presumably the consummation took place five nights, not one, before Tess's 
>arrest as Hardyy says she and Angel spent five days at the deserted 
>mansion, departing only when they realised  that the caretaker had 
>discovered their presence.
>
>Best wishes
>
>John Pentney
>
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