by her husband to allow of his having any speech with her. The wife,
knowing her husband's jealousy, gave no sign that this was displeasing
to her; nevertheless, she resolved to set things to rights, for she felt
herself as it were in hell, deprived as she was of the sight of her God.

One day, when her husband was abroad, she found a means to occupy her
servants, both men and women, after such a fashion that she was left
alone in the house. Immediately, she took what was needful, and, with no
company save that of the wanton love she carried with her, she repaired
on foot to Autun. Here she arrived none too late to be recognised by her
Canon, who kept her shut up in hiding for more than a year, and this in
spite of the monitions and excommunications that were procured against
him by her husband.

The latter, finding that he had no other remedy, at last complained to
the Bishop, who had an Archdeacon, as worthy a man as any at that time
in France. This Archdeacon himself searched with great diligence through
all the Canon's houses, until he discovered the one in which the woman
was being kept in concealment, whereupon he cast her into prison, and
laid heavy penance upon the Canon.

The husband, knowing that his wife had been recovered by the counsels of
the Archdeacon and divers other excellent persons, was content to take
her back on her swearing to him that she would live for the future as
beseemed a virtuous woman.

This the worthy man in his deep love for her readily believed, and,
bringing her back to his house, he treated her as honourably as before,
except that he gave her two old serving-women who never left her, one or
other of them being at all times with her.