chapter 20
"The pathway among the woods seemed wilder, more uncouth with its rude natural obstacles, and less trodden by the foot of man, than he remembered it on his outward journey. But he leaped across the plashy places, thrust himself through the clinging underbrush, climbed the ascent, plunged into the hollow, and overcame, in short, all the difficulties of the track, with an unweariable activity that astonished him."
Although D. thinks of having made the right choise, the Nature is warning him. His decision is right, but his cowardness tells him to escape right after the speech, so he will be safe. D's choise, anyway, gives him the pysichal strenght that he hadn't before, without his family to help him and the Devil torturing him. Now, having decided what to do (the right thing, admitting it), his condition gets better.
"The pathway among the woods seemed wilder" - think about all the Christian ideas about "paths and journeys". Can any be applied here?
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