Tess of the d'Urbervilles Phase IV: The Consequence Chapter 25

In which the restless Angel Clare contemplates the deepening significance of his rural surroundings and the profound life of a humble dairymaid, while wrestling with his own conscience and the nature of his future. He visits his austere, devout family at the Vicarage, sensing a growing divergence between their spiritual world and his embracing of earthly realities, and finds himself caught between two markedly different spheres.