If you will not feign gladness that you do not feel, I do not blame you; but when she tells you the news, answer her with that respect which you owe her.

She has a clear right to choose for herself.

She is still a comely dame, and no one will blame her for taking another husband.

To me and to you the thing may seem hard, even unnatural, but it is not so.

I like Sir William no more than you do.