(Prompt #3)
The Duke eliminated his wife, the Duchess; because he
felt she treated him just like all other men, and not as her husband. One event
that suggests this is when the duke describes her in the terrace, riding a
white mule, thanking a man for getting her cherries. She also received several
compliments from other men, and gladly thanked them for them.
“The white mule
she rode with round the terrace-all and each would draw from her alike the
approving speech, or blush at least. She thanked men”
This angered the
Duke very much, (even though saying thank you doesn’t mean that she is in love
with another man) and provoked him to have her executed.
