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,
神一样的人。虽然她曾发誓不嫁,但
由于工作
不得不和
接近,
逐渐亲密了起来,苔丝终于坠入情网。