Widow
Ah, I will cry more than thirty years.
Lucy
To die soon and cry forever is our final resolution.
Widow
I don't know what I'm saying, Lucy.
Lucy
I see it plainly. We haven't the strength to marry Arabella.
Countess While your husband was living, you gave the excuse that you hoped to have children. Now, your hopes and excuses are dead with your husband: you are mistress of your estate. You must marry Arabella, or tell me that you don't wish it.
Widow I cannot make up my mind to marry Arabella. Really, I don't wish her so much ill as to expose her to marriage.
Countess To hear you speak thus about marriage, one would think you didn't like it.
Widow On the contrary, it was because my happiness was so perfect, that I don't wish to marry my niece.
Countess
That's a reason to marry her.
Widow
I had a very loveable husband, and I don't want her to have one.