Her mother, still confident of their engagement, and relying as warmly as ever on his constancy, had only been roused by Elinor's application, to intreat from Marianne greater openness towards them both; and this, with such tenderness towards her, such affection for Willoughby, and such a conviction of their future happiness in each other, that she wept with agony through the whole of it.
La señora Dashwood, todavía confiada en su compromiso y creyendo con la calidez de siempre en la lealtad del joven, sólo por la insistencia de Elinor se había decidido a exigir de Marianne una mayor franqueza hacia ambas, y esto con tal ternura hacia ella, tal afecto por Willoughby y tal certeza sobre la felicidad que cada uno encontraría en el otro, que no pudo dejar de llorar desesperadamente hasta terminar de leer.