re: #412 Decatur Deb

And family ties offered a great deal of protection to that class. You really wanted to know all about a hottie’s great uncles before you trifled with them.

True, although the world was, basically, ending around them, so how much use that would have been is not clear.

It just seemed that this was a logical move. Worst case scenario, you die. Next worst case scenario, you live, and everyone finds out you slept with some young men who had a cart. So OK, you go into a convent or something, but the point is, you’re alive.

(Of course, as Bocaccio writes it, everyone is extremely chaste and appropriate, in the frame story, (not in the tales themselves, mind you).)