So I took her hand and pressed it and squeezed it.'God is Most Great！'exclaimed the woman. 'Why didst thou this ill thing？ Know that the water-carrierwho has come to our house these thirty yearsnor sawst thou ever any treason in him，took my hand to day and pressed and squeezed it.'Quoth her husband'O womanlet us crave pardon of God！ VerilyI repent of what I didand do thou ask forgiveness of God for me.'God pardon me and thee，'said she'and vouchsafe to make good the issue of our affair！'
Next daythe water-carrier came in to the jeweller's wife and throwing himself at her feetgrovelled in the dust and besought pardon of hersaying'O my ladyacquit me of that which Satan deluded me to do；for it was he that seduced me and led me astray.'Go thy ways，'answered she；'the fault was not in theebut in my husbandfor that he did what he did in his shopand God hath retaliated upon him in this world.'And it is related that the goldsmithwhen his wife told him how the water-carrier had used hersaid'Tit for tat！ If I had done morethe water-carrier had done more.'And this became a current byword among the folk.
So it behoveth a wife to be both outward and inward with her husbandcontenting herself with little from himif he cannot give her muchand taking pattern by Aaisheh the Truthful and Fatimeh the Clean Maid（may God the Most High accept of them）that she may be of the company of the righteous.