Table of contents Description of Farmer Oak—An Incident Night—The Flock—An Interior—Another Interior A Girl on Horseback—Conversation Gabriel's Resolve—The Visit—The Mistake Departure of Bathsheba—A Pastoral Tragedy The Fair—The Journey—The Fire Recognition—A Timid Girl The Malthouse—The Chat—News The Homestead—A Visitor—Half-Confidences Mistress and Men Outside the Barracks—Snow—A Meeting Farmers—A Rule—An Exception Sortes Sanctorum—The Valentine Effect of the Letter—Sunrise A Morning Meeting—The Letter Again All Saints' and All Souls' In the Market-Place Boldwood in Meditation—Regret The Sheep-Washing—The Offer Perplexity—Grinding the Shears—A Quarrel Troubles in the Fold—A Message The Great Barn and the Sheep-Shearers Eventide—A Second Declaration The Same Night—The Fir Plantation The New Acquaintance Described Scene on the Verge of the Hay-Mead Hiving the Bees The Hollow Amid the Ferns Particulars of a Twilight Walk Hot Cheeks and Tearful Eyes Blame—Fury Night—Horses Tramping In the Sun—A Harbinger Home Again—A Trickster At an Upper Window Wealth in Jeopardy—The Revel The Storm—The Two Together Rain—One Solitary Meets Another Coming Home—A Cry On Casterbridge Highway Suspicion—Fanny Is Sent For Joseph and His Burden—Buck's Head Fanny's Revenge Under a Tree—Reaction Troy's Romanticism The Gurgoyle: Its Doings Adventures by the Shore Doubts Arise—Doubts Linger Oak's Advancement—A Great Hope The Sheep Fair—Troy Touches His Wife's Hand Bathsheba Talks with Her Outrider Converging Courses Concurritur—Horae Momento After the Shock The March Following—"Bathsheba Boldwood" Beauty in Loneliness—After All A Foggy Night and Morning—Conclusion