Thomas Hardy does not write what Tess told Angel on their wedding night, and it is sort of confusing why he reacted quite so badly. I think it has to be because Tess had a short affair with Alec d'Urberville, or at least consented to have sex with him for several weeks after the initial rape or seduction. In the first edition of the book, Alec drugs her before raping her. Surely Angel could not comdemn Tess for that. Even Leviticus says only the man should be stoned if a woman is raped in the countryside where there is no one to hear. In following editions it is not clear whether Alec raped Tess, but if he did not, he still he took advantage of her when her defences were down, knowing she did not really want to sleep with him. Readers have spent so much time wondering whether Alec raped or seduced Tess that they do not take in what happened afterwards. In the chapter after the rape or seduction, Tess walks back home, but it is several weeks later. Alec catches up with her and tries to persuade her to come back. In the later editions Tess says she was only dazed by him for a while. Alec has given her family a horse. Tess felt very guilty for the death of Prince, the family horse, who was killed in a collision with the mail coach after she fell asleep at the reins. So it may be Tess slept with Alec after her initial rape or seduction to get the horse that her family desperately needed. There was also the incident when Angel hits a man who recognises Tess and says she is no maid. That does imply Tess was having sex with Alec for a while. Alec confesses to Tess on his wedding night that he had 48 hours of dissipation with a woman. Tess confessing that she had been raped or had submitted to a sex pest in a weak moment would surely not have been enough for Angel to have that extreme reaction. However, if Tess told him she continued to have sex with Alec for several weeks in order to get a horse for her family, that does not sound so good. Not saying Angel should not have been more understanding. I just think Hardy did not show clearly enough that Tess had consented to have sex with Alec for several weeks, so it is confusing when Angel reacts in such an unforgiving and hypocritical way. I think this is compounded because for 130 years readers have been wondering whether Tess was raped or seduced in the Chase and how much that made a difference.