Not much progress today. Ruso now has another dead body. He keeps maintaining that he is NOT investigating the murders, but everyone else assumes he is and keeps passing on information. My guess, at this point, is that the murderer is our too tidy hospital administrator who is responsible for the death of the custodian's harmless dog. Our slave girl is catching Ruso's eye. His need for money grows, and he can't spend any on her, so he must sell her soon. But of course he won't.
"To all humankind, Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends, she was only a frequently passing thought." Angel Clare is a good character. He's "enlightened," in so many ways, but when Tess's confesses her "crime," he reverts to ancestral form . . . Tess's "confession" comes earlier than I expected, right after Angel reveals that he has had a bad moment with a woman. Tess points out the similarity in their transgressions, though his is the only true transgression, expecting forgiveness. She doesn't get it. She returns to her mother . . . realizes she can't stay with her. Thoughts to suicide. Unhappiness that divorce is not possible. Departs. Tragic in that the two, if Angel could just see clearly, would indeed be a great couple, each adding to the other. Nature as a definite force involved in the tragedy. It's not neutral--when things go bad, the very skies mock Tess. Tess as unaware of the power of her bea...
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