Benedick.
You suspected him too.
Don Pedro.
That’s true. But that was all my brother John’s fault. Anyhow, I thought when they were once married things would settle down comfortably.
Benedick.
You were curiously sanguine. I should have thought anyone would have seen that after that scene in the church they would never be happy together.
Don Pedro.
Perhaps so. Anyhow, they weren’t. Of course, everything was against them. What with my brother John’s absolute genius for hatching plots, and my utter inability to detect them, not to speak of Claudio’s unfortunate propensity for overhearing conversations and misunderstanding them, the intervals of harmony between them were extremely few, and, at last, Hero lost patience and divorced him.
Benedick.