Lothario that her affair is to be revealed. Lothario and Camilla flee that night, and the maid flees the next day. Anselmo searches for them in vain before learning from a stranger of his wife's affair. He starts to write the story but dies of grief before he can finish. Lothario is a character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-96) and also in the play "The Fair Penitent" (1703), by Nicholas Rowe, based on the earlier 17th-century play, "The Fatal Dowry" (which itself drew on Cervantes). In Rowe's play, Lothario is a libertine who seduces and betrays Calista; and its
Gravity the Seducer always be judged against". "Spin" magazine's Barry Walters remarked that the album "lacks the infectious, dark-disco rumble" of Ladytron's earlier work, noting that it "withhold[s] the hooks that previously put the sweet in their bitter". John Calvert of "Drowned in Sound" characterised the album as "slightly bland" and "nondescript in its understated sophistication", concluding that ""Gravity the Seducer" never manages to get under your skin the way the band intended". In the band's home country, the United Kingdom, "Gravity the Seducer" peaked at number 72 on the UK Albums Chart, spending one week on the chart. It became the band's