I am still debating about the morality (or legitimacy) of Anne’s actions. Frankford did leave the house and, essentially, allow Wendell to be the “head of house.” However, a husband’s duty is to be head of the house—“the keeping of his authority, and the using of it” are what the husband’s goals. (Whately) Frankford gave Wendell a position of authority—though (literally) not a position as Anne’s husband. Did women in the early modern period truly act as Whately described they should? Would a woman be so entirely submissive and obedient with a man, any man in a position such as Wendell (that is, the “head of house”), that she would commit adultery to please him? Surely Anne, who held so much promise at the beginning of Heywood’s play, would be able to maintain her strong character (or rather, what we as readers believe to be strong character—given the fact that we really are only aware of her goodness through the words of the men in the play, rather than Anne’s actions). But this woman, who was such a perfect vision of what a wife should be, committed adultery against her husband. Again, I am still torn as to whether this action was understandable, given Wendell’s position of authority over her, or whether her actions reveal that even near-perfect women cannot resist temptation.