Sue weeps and tells
Jude about her conversation with
Little Father Time the night before. She feels that her relationship with Jude is now “stained with blood,” and she regrets all her rebellious thoughts of the past. She remembers how they sought to “make a virtue of joy” and follow only Nature’s law, but surely they are now being punished for that. Jude quotes from the play
Agamemnon, by Aeschylus: “Things are as they are.”