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)
