How we cite our quotes: (Volume.Book.Chapter.Line)
Quote #7
With that there came to her a light: wouldn't her value, for the man who should marry her, be precisely in the ravage of her disease?" (2.7.4.7)
At a late stage in the book, Milly comes to the terrible realization that men might actually want to marry her because she's terminally ill and not in spite of it. After all, whoever marries her will inherit all of her vast fortune after she dies, which she surely will soon enough.
Quote #8
"I think I should like," said poor Milly after an instant, "to die here." (2.7.4.10)
When Lord Mark asks her if she'd like to live in Venice, Milly replies that she'd actually like to die there. She knows that her time is fast approaching and that nothing can stop it. One thing she does have control over, though, is where she dies.
Quote #9
Milly felt, he could see, the difference; he might as well have praised her outright for looking death in the face." (2.9.1.50)
Merton is not supposed to show that he has knowledge of Milly's illness. He's supposed to make it look as if he wants to marry Milly and live with her for many years. But when he shows that he has knowledge of her illness, Milly gets suspicious about his motives for marrying her (like, ahem, her money).