"Faith" in the "good heart" comprises the new dream-ideal
for Mrs Gould, and the line is accompanied by the symbolic shade of the trees.
The line also mirrors Charles Gould's "pin my faith to material interests"
,
a deliberate and final contrast for the two Goulds. Throughout the novel Emily
has been searching for "heart," rather than material success, in human
affairs. But her husband is now reduced to an automaton of action, and she has
just accepted the disillusioning truth that the material interests will be the
oppressor in their turn, that there never will be a society without oppression.
She has thus joined Monygham in his social cynicism. What is left for her is the
dream-ideal of the "good heart," i.e., "faith" in the value
of the compassionate, subjective soul within the oppressive society.