Don Antonio [mistaking her for a man]
Have you ever traveled? Have you ever been far from home? Have you ever been homesick?
I've never been out of Sweden.
Don Antonio Then you don't know what it is to be homesick. You don't know what it means to feel that sense of loss, the pain of nostalgia.
One can feel nostalgia for places one has never seen.
Don Antonio Yes, that's quite true. Young man, that's the second time I've underestimated you...Imagine in this ice-cap finding someone who knows Spain. You understand I admire your country. It's rugged and strong and impressive. It has all the virile qualities...At home, our people are less hearty. They're a bit more graceful. It's all a question of climate. You can't serenade a woman in a snowstorm. All the graces and the arts of love - the elaborate approaches that go to make the game of love amusing - can only be practiced in those countries that quiver in the heat of the sun, in the still languorous nights where every breeze caresses with amour. Love, as we understand it, is a technique that must be developed in hot countries.
Sounds glamorous and yet...somewhat mechanical. Evidently, you Spaniards make too much fuss about a simple, elemental thing like love. We Swedes are more direct.
Don Antonio Well, that's civilization. To disguise the elemental with the glamorous. A great love has to be nourished, has to be...
[sighing]
A great love...
Don Antonio Don't you believe in its possibility?
In its possibility, yes, but not in its existence. A great love, a perfect love is an illusion. It is the golden fable of which we all dream. In an ordinary life, it doesn't happen. In ordinary life, one must be content with less.
Don Antonio So young, and yet so disillusioned. Young man, you're cynical.
Not at all, merely realistic.
I'll give up my room to you gladly.
Don Antonio Give up? I wouldn't hear of it.
Well, the truth is, uh, please forgive me sir, but since I was little, since I was a child, I've always disliked sharing my room with anyone. So you take the room and I'll go elsewhere.
Don Antonio I wouldn't hear of it. There isn't another free bed in the inn.
Well, I'll sleep before the fire.
Don Antonio Am I so unpresentable? Do my manners disgust you? Does my speech bore you? If you find me so unbearable, forgive me for having imposed myself on you for so long. Good night, sir.
Don Antonio Say no more about it. I shall sit before the fire all night.
Oh no, no, I-you couldn't. I wouldn't, uh... You shall share my room with me.
Don Antonio Oh, thank you very much. I'll be delighted. If you're ever in Spain, I'll return the hospitality.
Elsa [To Christina]
Shall I help you off with your boots, sir?
Don Antonio You're very pretty, Elsa. Are you also good?
Elsa When I do not like a man, yes.
Don Antonio The basis of all morality in a sentence.
Elsa Can I get you anything, sir?
Elsa The master says you're to have everything you need.
Elsa If you should need anything, my room is at the end of the passage.
Don Antonio She prefers you. You have the better chance.
I'd give her up gladly if you're interested.
Don Antonio No, I'm not interested. Well, don't you think since we're going to share the same bed we should be introduced?
I have imagined happiness but happiness you cannot imagine. Happiness you must feel, joy you must feel. Oh, and this great joy I feel now. Antonio.
Don Antonio What?
This is how the Lord must have felt when he first beheld the finished world with all his creatures breathing, living.
Don Antonio [They kiss.]
And to think a few snowdrifts might have separated us forever.
We might have been born in different centuries.
Don Antonio No, I never would have permitted that. We're inevitable, don't you feel it?
I feel it. But you, how can you be so sure? You know me so little.
Don Antonio That's true. There's a mystery in you.
Is there not in every human being?
Don Antonio Yes. Tell me, you said you would, why did you come to this inn dressed as a man?
In my home, I'm very constrained. Everything is arranged very formally.
Don Antonio A conventional household.
Very. I like to get away from it sometimes, to be free.
Don Antonio I can understand that.
You're going to court. What if the Queen keeps you there?
Don Antonio Let her try.
If half of the Queen's reputation is well-founded...
Don Antonio After you, she'll be tiresome. Ah, to have found anyone in this wilderness would have been miracle enough but to have found you - ah, this is too improbable. I don't believe in you. You're an illusion. You'll vanish before my eyes.
Antonio, I feel just the same.
Don Antonio I don't. I feel unlucky being the thirteenth.
Oh, but I was lying, terribly. And now you don't love me anymore?
Don Antonio Don't despair, your Majesty. My master, the King of Spain, has the honor of asking your hand in marriage. It isn't pleasant to betray one's King, to dishonor him in a far country.
Don Antonio Why did you go out of your way to make me ridiculous? All that idiotic talk of love and beauty that made my heart beat, and made me dream like a fool and talk like one.
I thought you would understand when you saw me again what had happened. That it had been so enchanting to be a woman, not a Queen, just a woman in a man's arms.
Don Antonio Yes, if you'd left my heart alone.
But I fell in love with you. I love you Antonio. Look! [She pulls a coin from her bodice] The coin you gave me for helping you. I've slept with it in my hand each night. Forgive me for being a Queen.
Don Antonio What do you want of me?
What do I want? What? I want back that room in the inn, the snow that fell, the warm fire and the sweet hours, beloved one.
Don Antonio [They kiss.]
Christina.
Don Antonio [Count Magnus has mortally wounded Don Antonio in a duel]
Have you said goodbye to your country?
Yes, to everything but you.
Don Antonio How sweet your eyes are.
Don Antonio When the wind is with us, we sail.
Don Antonio Spain - my home is on a white cliff overlooking the sea. You'll never leave me, will you...?
Don Antonio Your Majesty.
Shhh, you must rest. Rest.
