...Grenzen vorschreiben? Warum haben Sie mich verleitet, diesen Mann zu heiraten? (Ml, S. 22) MIRABELL: Why do we daily commit disagreeable and dangerous...To save that idol, reputation. If the familiarities ofour loves hadproduced that consequence, of which you were apprehensive, where could you have fixed...

...the play represents a social world in which honour has become a game 'to save that idol reputation'. 'I knew Fainall to be a man lavish of his morals, an interested and professing friend, a false and designing lover,' Mirabell tells Mrs Fainall, explaining his encouragement to her to seek in him a...