The unfortunate provost wakes from his bliss to find that fortune’s wheel has turned on him and that he has been disgraced in front of his boss. The bishop commends the trick played by Piccarda and her brothers—which also fulfills the day’s theme—because it maintained their honor as a family. But he, too, doesn’t value Cuitazza’s honor or sexual virtue as important. The tale also suggests how vulnerable women were to sexual advances and dishonor; there was no real way for Piccarda to refuse him since he wouldn’t accept no for an answer, so her only option was to trick him.