They ran away together on a summer’s night, and Iocale lay with Vulpes – Draco’s mother had always skipped that part, he remembered with a smile, and hadn’t known it until he had read the story himself – and then Iocale returned to her home hand in hand with her lover. She told her father that she was no longer pure; that she had given herself to Vulpes, and that the only way to restore her honour was for her to marry him. Iocale’s father was furious, and convinced Vulpes had somehow tricked his daughter, refused to let Iocale marry him. Instead, rage and hurt blinding him, Iocale’s father went to the village elders, and accused Vulpes of using trickery to despoil Iocale. Despite Iocale’s protests, the elders believed Iocale’s father over the denials of a rough mercenary and his poor "deceived’ victim.