Slender, pre-owned, casual, mature, officer
Answer:
She has no more sons they can marry so they should return home to their mother's.
Explanation:
She tried to persuade them by telling them that she had no more sons they could marry by the customs and even if she got married and bore sons, it would be a long time to come of age before she could give them as husband to them.
I think the sentence that best supports this is "I will advise you and direct you. I should not be a man if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes."
