We'll try this, and if it doesn't do we'll have another." A large red seal was duly affixed.

Bathsheba looked closely at the hot wax to discover the words.
"Capital!" she exclaimed, throwing down the letter frolicsomely.
"'Twould upset the solemnity of a parson and clerke too." Liddy looked at the words of the seal, and read-- "MARRY ME." The same evening the letter was sent, and was duly sorted in Casterbridge post-office that night, to be returned to Weatherbury again in the morning.
So very idly and unreflectingly was this deed done.

Of love as a spectacle Bathsheba had a fair knowledge; but of love subjectively she knew nothing..