Sammendrag av Daniel Deronda på Chapter 65

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1. Deronda answers Gwendolen's summons with sympathy and anxiety, knowing that he cannot give her everything her attachment demands.
2. Gwendolen proposes keeping only enough of her husband's money to support her mother, taking nothing for herself.
3. Deronda advises accepting the full provision, keeping her burden secret, and letting remorse guide her use of financial independence.
4. He encourages kindness toward her family and presents her suffering as a possible beginning of moral renewal.
5. Gwendolen urgently asks for further visits, and Deronda agrees despite fearing the pain of a stronger attachment.
6. During further meetings with her mother present, Gwendolen discusses bringing her family to Offendene and expects Deronda at Diplow.

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Deronda shifts attention from punishment to useful action. This advice gives Gwendolen hope, although she connects that hope closely with his continued presence.

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