Tess

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.

他有教养，有理想，富有同情心，在苔看来，他是象神一样。然她曾发誓不嫁，但是由工作上不不和他接近，他们逐渐亲密了起来，苔坠入情网。

Tess was a chaste young girl.

苔是一个纯真少女。