"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.