Barretts of Wimpole Street1934

Elizabeth Barrett:
Robert, have you ever thought that my strength may break down on the journey?

Robert Browning:
It had occurred to me, yes.

Elizabeth Barrett:
Supposing I were to die on your hands?

Robert Browning:
Are you afraid, Ba?

Elizabeth Barrett:
Afraid. You should know that I would rather die with you beside me than live a hundred lives without you. But how would you feel if I were to die? And what would the world say of you?

Robert Browning:
I should be branded as a little better than a murderer. What I should feel... I leave you to imagine.

Elizabeth Barrett:
And yet you ask me to come with you?

Robert Browning:
Yes. I am prepared to risk your life, much more my own, to get you out of that dreadful house and into the sun and to have you for my wife.

Elizabeth Barrett:
You love me like that?

Robert Browning:
I love you like that.