Kings2009

Queen Rose Benjamin:
I'm trying to bury this story with that boy.

Jack Benjamin:
Joseph.

Queen Rose Benjamin:
What?

Jack Benjamin:
His name was Joseph.

Queen Rose Benjamin:
What do I care what his name was? He was trying to ruin you.

Jack Benjamin:
No, he wasn't; he was trying to save me.

Queen Rose Benjamin:
Save you - from what?

Jack Benjamin:
From me... and I destroyed him for it; I'm the reason he's dead.

[Rose orders Thomasina from the room, then sits quietly next to Jack]

Queen Rose Benjamin:
You said he was nothing to you.

Jack Benjamin:
...He loved me... and I loved him.

Queen Rose Benjamin:
No, you didn't. You can't.

Jack Benjamin:
I loved him... I *loved* him.

[Rose gets up, irritated]

Jack Benjamin:
I cut him out of my heart, because that's what Dad wanted; that's what you wanted... and now the only person who saw me - who really saw me, and still loved me - he's dead.

Queen Rose Benjamin:
[she slaps him] Good!

Queen Rose Benjamin:
[shocked by her own reaction, she tentatively embraces him] This... this mistake of character... this will be our secret.

Jack Benjamin:
Mistake of character?... This is who I am.