Cesare: I hope you have treated our guest with kindness.

Lucrezia: That mouth on her… How I’d love to sew it shut.

Cesare: I rather like it open, myself.

Lucrezia: Oh?

Cesare: Have you talked to the Pope about the funds requested by my banker?

Lucrezia: He is away from the Castello, and he might need some convincing when he returns.

Cesare: That shouldn’t be a problem, should it?

Lucrezia: No. Only… it gets quite lonely here. You and I spend so little time together these days, busy as you are with your OTHER conquests.

Cesare: Soon, once I have secured the throne of Italia, you are going to be my queen, and your loneliness will be a thing of the past.

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Lucrezia: I cannot wait.

Cesare: Behave yourself while I am gone.