Far from the Madding Crowd Chapter XLIII

In which Bathsheba wrestles with a tempest of conflicting emotions upon learning a grave and troubling truth about Fanny Robin, leading her to a solitary vigil by the coffin of the dead woman whose shadow looms large over her own life and heart. The night culminates in a harrowing confrontation with her husband, where anguish and revelation intertwine in a tragic tableau of love, guilt, and despair.