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15 The question stands over. [If he says,] 'Be thou betrothed unto me for a loaf of bread', [and she replies,] 'Give it to the dog', she is not betrothed; but if it was her dog, she is betrothed. R'Mari asked What if the dog was pursuing her? [Do we say that] in return for the benefit of saving herself from it she resolves and cedes herself to him; or perhaps she can say to him, 'By Biblical law you were indeed bound to save me'? The question stands over. [If he says,] 'Be thou betrothed unto me with a loaf,' [and she replies,] 'Give it to the poor man': she is not betrothed, even if he was a poor man who relies on her. Why? - She can say to him, 'Just as I have a duty towards him, so hast thou a duty to him'. A man was selling