He tells her: “Heaven truly knows that you are false as hell” (4.2.39). Desdemona wants to reassure Othello that she is not being obscene and that she wants to please him and ease these thoughts, and she tells him: “And have mercy too! I have never / offended you in my life; I never loved Cassio / But with such a general guarantee from heaven / As I could love. I never gave him a pledge” (5.2.58-61). Desdemona begs him and tries to convince him that she will never betray him and that she has never proclaimed her love, either physically or verbally, to Cassio. No matter how hard she tries to convince Othello, all fingers point to Cassio as they find the handkerchief in his possession. Emilia also wants to please and show her loyalty to her husband, just like Desdemona did, by giving him the handkerchief because she remembered how many times he asked her to get it back and give it to him. “I'm glad I found this towel; / It was his first memory of the Moor, / My rebellious husband has a hundred times / Courted me to steal him; but she loves the pledge so much / (For he has conjured her that she should always keep it) / That she always reserves it for himself / To kiss him and talk to him. I will have the work removed / And I will give it to Iago. / What he will do with it, God knows, not me; / I only please his fantasy”