The Story of an Hour- How does Mrs. Mallard react when she receives the news of her husbands' death?

She initially looks shaken but when she is alone, she feels a sense of relief and excitement,

"Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long."