“How does the happy Cause of my Content, my dear Amanda? You find me musing on my happy State, And full of grateful Thoughts to Heaven, and you.”
Loveless directs this love message towards Amanda. He is assuring his wife that there is nothing on earth that can be compared to her. He imagines that the place fit for their love is heaven. Perhaps in heaven, there are no predicaments and it is full of fruits and honey where their love can flourish beyond limits. Amanda feels honored and mollycoddled and this is the joy of any woman. Any woman would wish her husband not to compare her with anything else except the heavenly beauty. In return, Amanda assures her husband that she is going to remain the best wife and she is going to shower him with love always.
“Twere all the Heaven I'd ask. But we are clad in black Mortality, And the dark Curtain of eternal Night, At last, must drop between us."
Amanda is aware that their love will not last forever because in this world no one is immortal. A time will come when there will be a forceful separation between them. She prays that only death separates them. Despite this, she is still confident that even in their death, they are likely to continue with their love. Her husband agrees that their earthly separation will be a mournful one which can be compared to a bitter pill to swallow. However, when that time comes, he accepts that it will be like an ungrateful taste. However, Amanda says that she is ready to swallow her husband's pain because men have softer ways of quenching their fires.
“Can you then doubt my Constancy, Amanda? You'll find 'tis built upon a steady Basis——The Rock of Reason now supports my Love, On which it stands so fix'd, The rudest Hurricane of wild Desire Wou'd, like the Breath of a soft slumbering Babe, Pass by, and never shake it.”
Loveless is telling his wife that he is committed to their love and she should not have any reason whatsoever to doubt him. His steadiness is evident like a rock that cannot be shaken. Therefore, Amanda is assured that her husband's love for her is fixed. His love towards Amanda is like a rude hurricane of wild desire and nobody can stop him from pampering his wife because. In response to this, Amanda assures his husband that she is not going to subject him to the troubled storms in their journey because she is going to be a calm port forever.
