His friends do not fail to inform him of his wife's conduct, and he holds her dowry as a guarantee of her fidelity.

But if he fails to enrich himself, or if she is unfaithful to him, he never comes back at all.

It is thus clear that a penniless young man cannot go to America until he is married.
"That is very true," Ruggiero repeated.
"And we must eat," said Sebastiano, who knew by experience the truth of what he said.
"And we are always hungry.

It is very strange.

I am hungry now, and yet we had the beans only this morning.