Men can be as quick witted as women can, especially when it comes down to them getting caught or in trouble. In Heptameron's seventh story, we are told that a merchant is in love with a young girl who is his neighbor. She too is totally infatuated with him as well. What the girl does not realize is she is letting him take advantage of her. "He merely pretended to be devoted to her in …showed first 75 words of 290 total…

…showed last 75 words of 290 total…he is actually deceiving her too. This story is interesting, because the merchant got into this situation by being deceptive, but also got himself out of the situation by being deceptive once again. It is as if his deception helped him recover from what he had gotten himself into. Today, we always think that two wrongs don't make a right, but in this case, two wrongs of deceiving these women seemed to make a right.