Dionisia nodded and stood up. She moved to her bed and sat next to Zelda, placing her hand atop her sister-in-law's. "I don't want to make you uncomfortable, of course," she said, in the same soothing tone that she might use for one of her patients who was unsure about their treatments, "but I also don't want you to be miserable." It was funny how she and Zelda's positions were so drastically different, wasn't it? Zelda was unable to marry the man she loved because of her family's wishes, and Dionisia had married a man she hadn't loved in spite of his family's wishes (not that she was aware of any specific issue the Fisks took with her marriage to Ari, but she'd always assumed they judged her for marrying him out of the blue).
"If he makes you happy, and you really love him, I will do everything in my power to help." If she'd married under the same circumstance she had but to anyone other than Ari, she might have added Because I don't want you to end up unhappy like me, but she couldn't say that, could she? She'd told Zelda that Ari didn't love her, but nothing more; she had no reason to believe that Dio was anything other than content.
"If he makes you happy, and you really love him, I will do everything in my power to help." If she'd married under the same circumstance she had but to anyone other than Ari, she might have added Because I don't want you to end up unhappy like me, but she couldn't say that, could she? She'd told Zelda that Ari didn't love her, but nothing more; she had no reason to believe that Dio was anything other than content.
