In Act IV.i, Leonato repudiates his daughter's virtue. Why? Defend the claim that this announcement (legitimate or not) is a return to the status quo, the so-called "normal" of the action.
Leonato repudiates his daughter's virtue because he believes that she actually was the one that was caught in the act, which was the reason Claudio refused the marriage. Since there was no marriage, Hero would not be married into a family of wealth, which is what Leonato expected. It essentially is a return to normalcy because it seemed like things were going too well; Beatrice and Benedick were starting a relationship, Don Pedro was successfully making his matches, and it all seemed as if it were going according to plan. Too bad life doesn't always go the way we want it to, and Shakespeare shows that by making this perfect couple, who seemed too good to be true, fall apart due to a malevolent framed act established by Don John.
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