Perhaps she could be addressing the Miller here, because the Miller based his whole story of of a wife and her lover conspiring together to trick her husband, and at least in this case, the wife is quite good at keeping a secret. Could this be the Wyf of Bath's ironic way of saying to the Miller, "No way....I woman would never be able to keep a secret like that. It just would not work. You're being unrealistic, Miller. Serves you write for naming this weird woman after me."

This might be a subtle allusion to how the character Constance was portrayed throughout the Man of Law's Tale, and how it had such an emphasis on her holiness and purity. This might be the Wyf of Bath subtly saying that this portrayal of women's purpose and desire is romanticized and inaccurate.

Perhaps, in a way, this connects with her whole Prologue, because it almost serves as a reason, or excuse, for all the stuff she's told. She has gone on and on for pages about her past life and her five husbands, but now, in her actual tale, it's like she's saying, "FYI guys, we women find it SUPER hard to keep information unsaid. We like to TELL people stuff. So, if you're appalled at all the information I'm giving you, I'm sorry, I couldn't help it."

This would be what I think the Wyf of Bath is getting at in her Prologue and Tale:

Knight: Man of Law: I think it’s about time your silly stories are really addressed. I’m kind of a mediator here because I’m not super poor like the peasants we have here, but I’m also not BLATENTLY IGNORANT like you two are. I’ll be the middle ground. So let me show you what the Miller, Reeve, and Cook are trying to say to you: Your stories are full of obnoxious, unrealistic, and aristocratic fluff and nonsense that none of us want to here. I mean, don’t you SEE that there are peasantry in our midst? Have a little respect. And also can we PLEASE get away from this overdramatized and obsolete idea that women are objects in our stories? As you can clearly see by my story, there is just so much more to women than you think. They can be quite surprising and pretty dang great. And my goodness, I thought that AT LEAST after the Knight got quited by the Miller’s Tale, you Man of Law person would have some more sense. But no. You just went right down the same track he did. You clearly don’t learn anything. We’re trying to make a very relevant and thoughtful commentary about philosophical, psychosocial, socioeconomic matters of our society right now, and you’re throwing a wrench into our efforts by talking about ladies floating in boats. Can you please get your head out of the mellow dramatic clouds of literary eloquence you’re stuck in, and get it down here with us? PLEASE?

This is a connection between the narrator and reader, although it is, in a way, indirect, because it's a statement from the Wyf of Bath, told to us through Chaucer the character, through Chaucer the writer. But nevertheless, the statement is basically, "I'm not gonna use up time to continue the story for you. You can go read it if you want. There's just a little advertisement for Ovid. Moving on..."

It's interesting that she decides to state this honest fact about women right here and now in the story. She seems to advocate for the independency of women throughout, but then here, she's telling us that women cannot keep secrets for the life of them.

So if we're wondering, "Now where did she get this random story about a wife causing bad things?". Well, we know it's probably from that book that one of her past husbands would always annoyingly read--the one she tore pages out of. So that's a cool connection.

So now the Wyf of Bath is beginning a story within her tale within the larger story that Chaucer is telling. It's a story within a story within a story.

Section 913 - 982 Summery: The knight struggles to find the answer to what women want most, and our narrator tells a story to tell us that it's not keeping secrets.