text:  A young "Ephesian widow " named Melissa fair and susceptible who has lately lost her husband at sea and become the heiress of his immense wealth has recently (in obedience to the above-mentioned invariable law of Greek romance) fixed an eye of ardent affection on Clitophon; and it is suggested by his friends that by marrying this new inamorata and sailing with her forthwith on her return to Ephesus his departure would at once be satisfactorily explained to his father on his arrival and he might return to his friends at Tyre after their emotions at the tragical catastrophe of Leucippe had in some measure subsided