Return of the Native Book 4 Chapter 8

In which the restless and discontented Eustacia learns of Mr. Wildeve’s unexpected inheritance and contemplates the changed circumstances it may bring, even as she faces the sombre reality of her estrangement and the illness of her mother-in-law. As she and Wildeve walk together under the night sky, the sombre mood deepens with the harrowing news from a turf-shed where sorrow and death cast a grim shadow over their once familiar lives.