True. Of course to my mind, anyone who would let someone run them probably deserves the misfortune and misery that will in all likelihood result.
Well, I think this was just an example of making a rare bad choice; surely the sparkling old dude has more sense than that.
His first wife was an ideal wife for him, loved him to pieces. But then she started getting older and stouter, and perhaps a touch of mustache on the upper lip like most Italianate women, and he got momentarily infatuated by some nubile rich young brainless floozy chick, and ditched her.
The sparkling old dude forgot that the most faithful and loving wives are old wives.