Then, while she was dryingherself, the stranger begged
her, with his eyes full of
tears, to marry him. She
answered him sincerely that
she would never marry a man
who was so simple that he
had wasted almost an hour
and even went without lunch
just to see a woman taking a
bath. Finally, when she put on
her cassock, the man could
not bear the proof that,
indeed, she was not wearing