Who asks Hooper to explain the veil?

Elizabeth, Mr. Hooper's fiancee, asks him to remove the veil and explain to her why he put it on in the first place

When Elizabeth, Mr. Hooper's fiancee, asks him to remove the veil and explain to her why he put it on in the first place, he responds that he cannot. When he refuses to remove the veil, she presses him to at least explain himself, to "remove the mystery from his words