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.

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.

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.

[They kiss.]

Christina.