This is an early post of mine, I just wanted to repeat it. Perhaps no one heard me. It was refering to the widowed before the marrage theory.
Facinating about the whole widowed thing. I do think that Elizabeth was missing Jack, but mostly the adventure that he always dragged her into. I do think she loved him ever since he left, but she didn't realize it till he came BACK into her life in Tortuga. All the feelings were buried inside, and she was used to surpressing her true feelings.
She just accepted that Jack would never come back and she'd just have to marry Will and have a normal life. She didn't count on Jack being pushed back into her life, with Beckett and all, and then she ran into him in Tortuga. That was when she realized that she really did love him, but she kept it inside and forced herself to think that he'd just leave her again and she'd have to go back to Will.
You know that moment when he gave her the compass, I know she knew it was a compass but that look she had on her face. Didn't it look like she thought he was purposing to her? Lol, she's all speachless and it looks like she's convincing herself that it's just a compass.
Then she says, "Ohhh, Jack." Like she's deciding saying yes or no but she still has doubts whether it's a compass or not. Follow me? And with Jack saying all those things about what you want most in the world, it really does sound like he's proposing.