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To all this and much more that Anselmo said to Lothario to persuade hi, Lothario

replied with so ood intentions, and it was agreed that on two

days in the week, and on holidays, Lothario should coement was made between them Lothario resolved to

observe it no further than he considered to be in accordance with the

honour of his friend, whose good name was more to him than his own He

said, and justly, that a married man upon whom heaven had bestowed a

beautiful wife should consider as carefully what friends he brought to

his house as what female friends his wife associated with, for what

cannot be done or arranged in the market-place, in church, at public

festivals or at stations (opportunities that husbands cannot always deny

their wives), ed in the house of the female friend or

relative in whom most confidence is reposed Lothario said, too, that

every married man should have soht be guilty of in his conduct, for it will so to the deep affection the husband bears his wife either