This book includes between its pages two stories by the French writer Alexandre Demas. The events of the first story took place in the second half of the seventeenth century, and its heroine was the "Marquise de Ginges," who was extremely beautiful and chaste, and the events took place where this virtuous woman paid with her life to abstain from sins. As for the second story, its heroine was "Beatrice Sensi," a young Roman girl whose innocence and purity of her soul did not intercede for her, but the ugliness had reached Its end, the girl pays with her life for her chastity.