“And in order that you shall not say,” he added, “that I blame your daughter without cause, you shall both see and touch the scoundrel who has done us this dishonour, and I beg that he may be killed before he can get away.”
Every one present declared that it should be so.
“And then,” said the merchant, “I will send you back your daughter for such as she is.”
With that they all accompanied him, though sorrowing much at the news, and they took with them torches and flambeaux, so as to be better able to search, and that nothing should escape them.
They knocked so loudly that the damsel came before anyone else in the house was awakened, and opened the door, and when they had come in, she abused her husband, her father, her mother, and the others, and declared that she wondered greatly what could have brought them all at that hour of the night. At these words her husband stepped forward, and gave her a good buffet, and said,
“You shall know soon enough, false such and such that you are.”
“Ah! take care what you say. Was it for that you brought my father and mother here?”
“Yes,” said the mother, “false wench that you are. We will drag forth your paramour directly.”
And her sisters said,
“By God, sister you did not learn at home to behave like this.”