She told him that she had no doubt he spoke the
truth, and that she deemed him too honourable a man to make evil report
of any one in the world; least of all of herself, who bore him so much
friendship; but since her husband had heard the matter spoken of, she
begged him to say in his presence that he had not so spoken and did not
so believe.
To this he willingly agreed, and, wishing to attend her to her house, he
offered to take her arm; but she told him it was not desirable that he
should come with her, for her husband would think that she had put these
words into his mouth. Then, taking one of his serving-men by the sleeve,
she said--
"Leave me this man, and as soon as it is time I will send him to seek
you. Meanwhile do you go and rest in your lodging."
He, having no suspicion of her conspiracy against him, went thither.
She gave supper to the serving-man whom she had kept with her, and who
frequently asked her when it would be time to go and seek his master;
but she always replied that his master would come soon enough.
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