Altem. Then I resolved to know the very worst.

I locked him in my room and questioned him

For full three hours about his married life.

Oh, I elicited such fearful things!

Why, Gélanor, there’s not a woman’s name

In all the long baptismal catalogue

That’s not identified with his intrigues!

Tall, short, stout, slender, fair, dark, old and young,

High, low, rich, poor, good, bad, maid, widow, wife,

Of every country and of every clime!