“He did it to insult me—despite the courtesy and generosity I have shown all of them. When he caught sight of you, he said, ‘Look at that! These Franks are so lacking in honor, they let their wives show themselves to strange men like common whores.’”
This is one of the dumbest plot points in the book and that’s saying something. Muslims of this period considered it inappropriate for a married woman to be in the presence of male strangers IF her husband or a male relative wasn’t present. Christians in this time also shared the idea
