There, she resists her master's Alec attempts to seduce her, but after a fair he takes advantage of her. She gives birth to a boy that dies soon after, leaves her father's house and goes to a distant valley where she accepts to work as a milkmaid at Talbothays Dairy. There, she meets Angel Clare, a clergyman son, and they fall in love.
She writes Angel a confessional note about her past and slips it under the door, but Angel never sees it. On their wedding night, Tess tells Angel about her past and he leaves her to go to Brazil, while she is forced to work at Flintcombe Ash. While in the fields she hears a preacher and discovers he is Alec D'Urbeville, converted to Christianity by Angel's father. She agrees to become his mistress
Angel comes back and tells Tess he has forgiven her. Tess, out of despair, kills Alec and flees with Angel. She is arrested at Stonehenge while sleeping on the stone of sacrifice and she is executed