cousins to fall in love even
when circumstances seemed to favour the passion. The third: even were he free,
in a family like his own where marriage usually meant a tragic sadness, marriage
with a blood-relation would duplicate the adverse conditions, and a tragic
sadness might be intensified to a tragic horror.
    Therefore, again, he would have to think of Sue with only a relation's
mutual interest in one belonging to him; regard her in a practical way as some
one to be proud of; to talk and nod to; later on, to be invited to tea by, the
emotion spent on her being rigorously that of a kinsman and well-wisher. So
would she be to him a kindly star, an elevating power, a companion in Anglican
worship, a tender friend.
 

                                       3

But under the various deterrent influences Jude's instinct was to approach her
timidly, and the next Sunday he went to the morning service in the
Cathedral-church of Cardinal College to gain a further view of her, for he had
found that she frequently attended there.
    She did not come, and he awaited her in the afternoon, which was finer. He
knew that if she came at all she would approach the building along the eastern
side of the great green quadrangle from which it was accessible, and he stood in
a corner while the bell was going. A few minutes before the hour for service she
appeared as one of the figures walking along under the College walls, and at
sight of her he advanced up the side opposite, and followed her into the
building, more than ever glad that he had not as yet revealed himself. To see
her, and to be himself unseen and unknown, was enough for him at present.
    He lingered awhile in the vestibule, and the service was some way advanced
when he was put into a seat. It was a louring, mournful, still afternoon, when a
religion of some sort seems a necessity to ordinary practical men, and not only
a luxury of the emotional and leisured classes. In the dim light and the
baffling glare of the clerestory windows he could discern the opposite
worshippers indistinctly only, but he saw that Sue was among them. He had not
long discovered the exact seat that she occupied when the chanting of the 119th
Psalm in which the choir was engaged reached its second part, In quo corriget,
the organ changing to a pathetic Gregorian tune as the singers gave forth:
 
                »Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?«
 
It was the very question that was engaging Jude's attention at this moment.