Jude the Obscure Part 4 Chapter 2

In which the tender bonds between Jude and Sue are strained by the solemn duties of loss and the poignant disclosures of private sorrow, revealing the quiet miseries hidden behind the guise of duty and decorum. They find themselves caught between the steadfast conventions of their time and the aching yearnings of their hearts, each contemplating the cruelties of fate and the constraints of marital ties.