Queen Christina1933

Christina:
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?

Christina:
This is how the Lord must have felt when he first beheld the finished world with all his creatures breathing, living.

[They kiss.]

Don Antonio:
And to think a few snowdrifts might have separated us forever.

Christina:
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?

Christina:
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.

Christina:
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?

Christina:
In my home, I'm very constrained. Everything is arranged very formally.

Don Antonio:
A conventional household.

Christina:
Very. I like to get away from it sometimes, to be free.

Don Antonio:
I can understand that.

Christina:
You're going to court. What if the Queen keeps you there?

Don Antonio:
Let her try.

Christina:
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.