If you had read St. Paul to the end, you would
have found that he commends himself to the ladies, who greatly laboured
with him in the work of the Gospel."
"However that may be," said Longarine, "the woman in the story is well
worthy of praise both for the love she bore her husband, on whose behalf
she risked her own life, and for the faith she had in God, who, as we
see, did not forsake her."
"I think," said Ennasuite, "as far as the first is concerned, that there
is no woman present but would do as much to save her husband's life."
"I think," said Parlamente, "that some husbands are such brutes that the
women who live with them should not find it strange to live among their
fellows."
Ennasuite, who took these words to herself, could not refrain from
saying--
"Provided the beasts did not bite me, their company would be more
pleasant to me than that of men, who are choleric and intolerable. But I
abide by what I have said, that, if my husband were in a like danger, I
should not leave him to die."
"Beware," said Nomerfide, "of loving too fondly, for excess of love will
deceive both him and you. There is a medium in all things, and through
lack of knowledge love often gives birth to hate.
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