Cultured, idealistic, sympathetic, he seemed to Tess a demigod ,and though she had sworn herself to celibacy, the enforced propinquity ripened into intimacy and drifted into love.

有教养，有理想，富有同情心，在苔丝看来，是象神一样的。虽然她曾发誓不嫁，但是由于工作上不得不近，们逐渐亲密了起来，苔丝终于坠入情网。