When Elizabeth was done saying those, Alice asked, "Are you done?"
This question posed a shock to Elizabeth, it simply meant that Alice was not listening to a single bit of what she was saying.
Alice knew what Elizabeth was trying to do by saying those words, but since she had discovered what her husband was up to, she stood firm by him. She had known that Martin was never going to betray the love he has for her because she has nothing. She had realized in the few days of their stay that his love even increased greatly because she abandoned everything she had just to be him. So to her, having Martin, his love, care, affection and attention was more than the riches she had before then and she could not trade them for her wealth again.
Noticing that her question made Elizabeth startled, s
