- Lady Rectitude keeps slapping down examples of women who loved men for their brilliant minds instead of their bodies. Take Socrates' wife, for example, who definitely loved her husband for his philosophical mind, since the dude was old and not much of a looker.
- Another woman named Pompeia, the wife of the philosopher Seneca, was so mad when the emperor had her husband executed that she insulted the emperor in hopes he'd do the same to her. When it didn't work, she just wasted away from sadness and died anyway.
- These stories eventually remind Christine of many women in her own life who are totally in love with old and ugly husbands.
- Within the coming stories, we hear about one woman who followed her husband into a leper colony and others who saved their husbands from death in all kinds of different ways.
- Finally, Christine mentions that some men also say that women are gossips who don't know how to keep a secret. Again, Lady Rectitude says that there is tons of evidence in history and literature to suggest this isn't the case.