Her affirmation itself comes as a negative. Something can come of nothing. Love is not a matter of pretty speeches, nor of “cause,” that legal word to which Othello clings, so desperately and futilely, at the end of his tragedy (“It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul” [5.2.1]). Love is a bond that transcends both rhetoric and the law, but it requires expression and communication, voiced or unvoiced.
