The neighbours went away, commending the dying woman to God, and promising to do all she had requested, for which she thanked them.
When the hour of her death drew near, she begged her husband to pardon her, and told him of the misdeeds she had committed during the years she had lived with him, and how such and such of the children belonged to a certain man, and such to another—that is to say those before-mentioned—and that after her death they would take charge of their own children.
He was much astonished to hear this news, nevertheless he pardoned her for all her misdeeds, and then she died, and he sent the children to the persons she had mentioned, who kept them.
And thus he was rid of his wife and his children, and felt much less regret for the loss of his wife than he did for the loss of the children.
