Thomas Hardy IV

Arabella leaves Jude and goes to Australia with another man, whom she marries bigamously. Jude persuades Sue to leave her husband and come to him. Their relationship is at first sexless because Sue does not like sex, and dislikes it all the more with her husband. Arabella then comes back to England and brings her son by Jude with her. She and Jude get a divorce, but she leaves the child with him...Sue gets a divorce from Phillotson, and she and Jude begin to have a sexual life. They have 2 children but she is reluctant to marry him. She has radical ideas and is less religious than Jude. But the fact that they are not married is a problem... they lead a nomadic life moving from job to job, and not having much money, and when their unmarried status is discovered Jude usually loses his job. Sue is stressed out by this, looking after her 2 children and "Father time" as they call Jude's son by Arabella... Then after Jude has lost another job, they wake up one morning to find that Jude's son has been brooding over their problems and lack of money, and he has killed his 2 siblings and himself. Sue, who is pregnant again, is horrified and has a miscarriage.