Scene 8

Nottingham Marketplace

(Isabella is looking at the stalls. Robin approaches)

ROBIN

(whispers)

Isabella

ISABELLA

(shocked)

Robin! What are you doing here? If the guards discover you, you will be arrested and maybe killed.

ROBIN

I need your help.

ISABELLA

Why do you need my help?

ROBIN

I need you to help me get into the castle.

ISABELLA

What for?

ROBIN

Marian.

ISABELLA

Why?

ROBIN

Because…

(song begins)

In my life

She has burst like the music of angels

The light of the sun

And my life seems to stop

As if something is over

And something has scarcely begun.

Isabella

You're the friend who has brought me here

Thanks to you I am one with the gods

And Heaven is near!

And I soar through a world that is new that is free

ISABELLA

(to herself)

Every word he says is a dagger in me.

In my life

There's been no one like him anywhere

Anywhere, where he is…

If he asked… I'd be his

ROBIN & ISABELLA

In my life

There is someone who touches my life

ROBIN

Waiting near

ISABELLA

Waiting here

(song ends)

ROBIN

Please, Isabella. I need to speak to her.

ISABELLA

Fine.

(Isabella leads Robin into the castle grounds behind the main tower)

(Robin sees Marian. Isabella leaves them alone, but remains in the distance, watching them)

ROBIN

(whispers)

Marian.

(Marian turns around)

MARIAN

(shocked)

Robin! What are you doing here? You shouldn't be here. There are guards.

ROBIN

I needed to see you. I have something to tell you.

MARIAN

What?

(song begins)

ROBIN

A heart full of love

A heart full of song

I'm doing everything all wrong

Oh God for shame

I do not even know what to say

Dear lady

Won't you say?

Will you tell?

MARIAN

A heart full of love

No fear, no regret

ROBIN

A heart full of love

ISABELLA

He was never mine to lose

MARIAN

A heart full of you

ISABELLA

Why regret what cannot be

ROBIN

A single look and then I knew

MARIAN

I knew it too

ISABELLA

These are words he'll never say.

Not to me.

ROBIN

From today

ISABELLA

Not me, not for me

MARIAN

Everyday

MARIAN & ROBIN

For it isn't a dream

Not a dream after all.

ISABELLA

His heart full of love.

ISABELLA, MARIAN & ROBIN

He will never feel this way.

(song ends)