. Melchester inMid-Wessex.There was a theological college at Melchester also! Jude couldwork in the city, study, join the theological college and be readyto enter the Church at the age of thirty Christmas. me, then you're wrong.' Jude said no more. They walked down into the field whereFarmer Troutham had beaten him as a boy, up the other side to the village — and found Mrs Edlin at their. a room on the otherside of the house. But then, one night, he absentmindedlyentered their old room and began to undress. There was a cryfrom the bed and a quick movement towards the window....