‘Don’t do it’.

‘I have to’.

‘No, you don’t. You’re just pursuing a silly dream; no, not even a dream – a memory of something that never was’.

‘That’s not true! It happened!’

‘I thought Eustachia was the only woman for you?’

‘She was, but…’

‘But nothing. You were her univira, remember?’

‘I know’.

‘But she wasn’t your only one, was she?’

‘She was while she was alive!’

‘But since she died you have moved on to others!’

‘No, I have not!’

‘What about the Queen of the West Britons, then?’

‘That was – that was – differ...

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