DOWLING, J., March 5, 1991.
In Thomas Hardy's wonderful novelistic tragedy Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the heroine, plagued by guilt over her shady past, slips a letter to her current lover under his door, in which she confesses the truth about herself. When she sees him again, he is as warm to her as ever, which leads her to believe that he now knows and forgives all. Only later does she discover that when she pushed the envelope under the door, it also...
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