Tess felt like crying but turned quickly and went out. Her mother went
with her to the edge of the village. There she stopped and stood waving
goodbye, and watched her daughter walking away into the distance. A
waggon came to take her bags, and then a fashionable little carriage
appeared. It was driven by a well-dressed young man smoking a cigar.
After a moment's hesitation, Tess stepped in. Joan Durbeyfield,
watching, wondered for the first time if she had been right in
encouraging Tess to go. That night she said to her husband, 'Perhaps I
should have found out how the gentleman really feels about her.
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