Tristan & Isolde

Isolde:
How many did you love before me?

Tristan:
None.

Isolde:
And after me?

Tristan:
None.

[Tristan and Isolde look out to sea.]

Tristan:
You're promised?

Isolde:
Yes.

Tristan:
What’s he like?

Isolde:
Dark. Tall. Nearly twice your size. An absolute gentleman.

Tristan:
I thought... earlier when you spoke of wanting something you can’t have.

Isolde:
I didn’t know what I was talking about.

[They leave the shore and go inside the hut, Isolde is crying.]

Isolde:
Outside, just past that bluff there is a boat. That’s how you should go when you leave. You should go soon.

[Isolde leaves but Tristan goes after her. They kiss. Inside the hut they make love.]

Tristan:
How do you feel?

Isolde:
I don’t know.

[After Isolde's wedding to Marke, as the married couple leave the party, Isolde approaches Tristan]

Isolde:
If things were different. If we lived in a place without duty... would you be with me?

Tristan:
That place does not exist.

Isolde:
I'll pretend it's you.

[Marke and Isolde stand outside the keep surveying the town. Marke fingers her shell bracelet.]

Marke:
That’s pretty. Did you make it?

Isolde:
It was a present.