[...]... luggage at the station and get lodgings later.' 57 He carried their baby son, Sue led their little daughter and Arabella's boy walked silently beside them until they arrived at a round theatre — the theatre from which Jude had looked out on the day he awoke from his Christminster dream Today, there were holiday crowds lining the open space between the theatre and the nearest college 'Here's the best... to the Great Wessex Agricultural Show One train came from Aldbrickharn The other came from London and, among the crowd that got off it, were a well-built, rather red-faced woman in city clothes and a short, rather top-heavy man with a round stomach 'Heavens, Cartlett!' cried the woman, looking at a couple coming off the other platform 'There's Jude Fawley!' 'They seem fond of one another and of their... each other, aren't we?' She looked trustfully up at him Jude looked away Was his heart going to be the next one that 26 27 In their excitement, however, they missed the last train back and had to stay the night in a lonely cottage 'Are you a married couple?' the son of the house asked Jude privately 'Shhh, no!' 'Then she can go into Mother's room, and you and I can lie in the outer room after they've... softly 'Don't cry any more There, there and there.' He kissed Sue on one side, and on the other, and in the middle — and closed the window One Friday evening at the end of that month, there was a knock at the front door Jude opened his window and saw a woman under the street-light 'Is that Mr Fawley?' The voice was Arabella's! 'Whatever do you want, Arabella?' Sue came into Jude' s room, immediately upset... Jude had left to collect their luggage and find Sue woke early next morning and she ran across to the inn, to tell Jude about the problem with the lodgings They had a quick meal and then returned together to prepare the children's breakfast All was still quiet in the children's little room and, at half-past eight, Sue went in to call them Jude heard a scream and saw her fall to the floor, unconscious... came to stay in the same house They saw each other very little Phillotson came frequently, usually when Jude was out He would obviously be a kind and loving husband, but what did Sue feel? Jude was depressed that, having made a wrong marriage himself he was now helping the woman he loved to do the same On the morning of the wedding, the cousins went for a last walk together 'That's the church where... if we're known there? It's still the centre of the world to me because of my early dream I'd like to go back to live there, perhaps to die there! I'd like to be there by a particular day in June PART 6 Chapter 24 AT CHRISTMINSTER AGAIN In the Streets of Christminster They arrived at Christminster on Remembrance Day, the day chosen by Jude 'Let's go and watch the celebrations,' said Jude suddenly 'We'll... go to their room until nearly midnight Sue was not there 'I'm not sleepy now I'm reading by the fire.' Her voice came from the back of the house, near the kitchen Phillotson went to bed, but when he woke up some time later, she was still not there He went downstairs 'Sue?' 'Yes.' The voice, very small, now seemed to come from a clothes-cupboard under the stairs 'Whatever are you doing in there? There's... training college, she wrote, at Melchester in Mid-Wessex There was a theological college at Melchester also! Jude could work in the city, study, join the theological college and be ready to enter the Church at the age of thirty Christmas came and went Sue was already at Melchester and 23 Jude planned to go there in the spring She had not once mentioned either his behaviour that night he arrived at her cottage... live.' Then he too broke down 'Oh, oh, my babies!' Sue cried 'They had done no harm Why were they taken, not I? We loved each other too much, too selfishly, you and I, Jude; and now we're punished ' They talked endlessly that summer of their life together and of Life itself Gradually, Jude realized that they had mentally travelled in opposite directions since the tragedy Sue was no longer the fearless,