This is a universe where a woman is just someone’s property. You were born into a rather poor family. Your father was always in charge, your sisters were long ago given away in marriage to other men, but your mother always dreamed of you marrying a rich man. Pantalone was just one of these people, he never went down to the slums where you lived. But one day he was just passing by, because he was interested in what “beggar” people looked like..