However,
the bridge over the river intersects the island of St. Jean,
which is covered with houses, and here the muleteer's wife
evidently resided.--M.
Now it happened that one of her husband's servants had long loved her
exceedingly, and one day he could not refrain from speaking of it
to her. She, however, being a truly virtuous woman, rebuked him so
severely, threatening to have him beaten and dismissed by her husband,
that from that time forth he did not venture to speak to her in any such
way again or to let his love be seen, but kept the fire hidden within
his breast until the day when his master had gone from home and his
mistress was at vespers at St. Florentin,(3) the castle church, a long
way from the muleteer's house.
3 The Church of St. Florentin here mentioned must not be
confounded with that of the same name near one of the gates
of Amboise. Erected in the tenth century by Foulques Nera of
Anjou, it was a collegiate church, and was attended by the
townsfolk, although it stood within the precincts of the
chateau.
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