[To preserve what she's become, the isolation and bereavement. She's implied as much - and she cannot fight the battles she truly wishes, here. He doesn't think it suits her, even now, compounding what was once done against her will. But Marsh appreciates the distinction between forced servitude and deliberate desperation too well not to respect it in her, so it is an honest question.]
[Private]
[To preserve what she's become, the isolation and bereavement. She's implied as much - and she cannot fight the battles she truly wishes, here. He doesn't think it suits her, even now, compounding what was once done against her will. But Marsh appreciates the distinction between forced servitude and deliberate desperation too well not to respect it in her, so it is an honest question.]