Lucy. The gentlest means
Are still the wisest. What, if you should press
Your wife to a disclosure?
Selby. I have tried
All gentler means; thrown out low hints, which, though
Merely suggestions still, have never fail'd
To blanch her cheek with fears. Roughlier to insist,
Would be to kill, where I but meant to heal.
Lucy. Your own description gave that Widow out
As one not much precise, nor over-coy,