It gives me shame now to think that I would not help her.
She came near me and laid her hand on my shoulder.

I put my hand up and held hers.
"I know people write and talk as if it were.

Perhaps, for some, Fate lets it be.

Ah, if I were one of them! But if love had been the only thing, you would have let the King die in his cell." I kissed her hand.
"Honour binds a woman too, Rudolf.

My honour lies in being true to my country and my House.