Matinee Theater - Rendevous at Mayerling

Summary

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Podcast Summary

Podcast: Harold's Old Time Radio
Episode: Matinee Theater – Rendezvous at Mayerling
Aired: June 17, 2026
Main Cast: Victor Jory (Crown Prince Rudolph), Claire Neeson (Marie)
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Episode Overview

This Matinee Theater episode, “Rendezvous at Mayerling,” dramatizes the legendary, ill-fated romance between Baroness Marie Vetsera and Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria. The radio play, originally written by Gene Holloway, transports listeners to imperial Vienna, exploring clandestine love, societal duty, and ultimate tragic destiny. The tone is lushly romantic and emotionally intense, resonating with themes of longing and the pursuit—and cost—of forbidden love.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Legend Begins: A Night to Remember

• Setting the Scene: Marie prepares for a masked ball with excitement and foreboding, desiring a life of passion over the prospect of a dull arranged match with Arnold.
  • "You will be the belle of the ball. You are young and beautiful, and you are going to a masked ball in the prettiest costume any young lady could want." — Anna (01:46)
• Meeting the Stranger: On the balcony, Marie encounters a mysterious suitor. Their witty banter instantly kindles mutual attraction.
  • "Isn't it strange? I feel as though I do [know you]." — Marie (03:53)

2. Falling in Love, Masked by Disguise

• Magic of Vienna: The couple’s first dance leads to a dreamy nighttime walk by the Danube and declarations of immediate, irresistible love.
  • "I only know that there's always been a loneliness inside of me. And now it's gone." — Marie (06:56)
  • "You know, I never in my life believed that people actually did fall in love at first sight. But they do, don't they?" — Crown Prince Rudolph (07:20)
• Masked Identities Revealed: At Marie’s presentation to the Empress, she discovers her masked ball partner was Crown Prince Rudolph.
  • "I would have told you last night who I was, but I was afraid you would run away." — Crown Prince Rudolph (09:38)

3. Conflict: Love vs. Duty

• Private Yearning, Public Strain: Their growing romance becomes the subject of rumor and scandal throughout Vienna.
  • "I don't care what anyone in the world is saying. It's no one's concern but our own." — Marie (18:08)
• Impossible Choices: Both are trapped by social expectation—Rudolph by his royal marriage, Marie by her mother's moral outrage and command to end the affair.
• Notable Confrontation:
  • Marie’s Mother: "What is right is right. What is wrong is wrong. There is no compromise that can be made with honor. Rudolph is married and he is the future ruler.” (18:32)
  • Marie: "We didn’t choose to fall in love... Together we are somehow complete and content and apart, neither of us has anything." (18:45)

4. Intimate Dreams and Stark Reality

• Longing for Normalcy: The lovers imagine an alternate life—simple domesticity, children, and happiness, all denied to them by circumstance.
  • "Yes, I'd like a house... A small house somewhere out here beside the Danube... A friendly house where we could invite the people we love to come and laugh with us." — Marie (16:41)
  • "Such dreams are for the people, never for rulers." — Crown Prince Rudolph (17:14)

5. Climax: The Last Rendezvous

• Royal Ultimatum: Rudolph’s father demands the end of the affair; Rudolph requests one final meeting at Mayerling.
  • "I forbid you to see this woman again... You are a prince of the House of Habsburg. Your dignity and honor is the dignity and honor of the entire lineage." — Rudolph’s Father (20:04)
  • "Very well, father. I will do as you ask. I'll meet her just once more and tell her." — Crown Prince Rudolph (20:31)
• The Final Night: In the early dawn at Mayerling, the lovers reflect on their joy and impending separation, finding solace only in each other.
  • "It's a strange feeling to look at the stars and the moon and know that you'll never see them again." — Marie (22:21)
  • "We've completed our lifetime this year, Marie." — Crown Prince Rudolph (24:19)
  • "There's no peace on earth for us, my darling. There never would be." — Crown Prince Rudolph (24:41)
  • "We shall meet again when it be morrow." — Marie & Crown Prince Rudolph (26:01, 26:24)

6. Epilogue: The Legend Endures

• Fate Sealed: The narrator laments society’s cruelty and the lovers’ ultimate sacrifice.
  • "And so they kept the last rendezvous at Mayerling, and the world that had denied them the right to love talked about them, wondered about them, finally wept and left them in peace." — Narrator (26:50)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• First Spark:

  • "Isn't it strange? I feel as though I do [know you]." — Marie (03:53)
  • "Will you dance?" — Crown Prince Rudolph (03:56)

• Declaration of Love:

  • "I only know I love you. And I must see you or I will die." — Marie (11:42)

• Social Judgment:

  • "The world has no place in it for you or me. The world has locked its doors and set its words against us. We have only each other." — Crown Prince Rudolph (17:28)

• Heartfelt Goodbye:

  • "Maybe the beauty hurt a little now and then when people closed in on it. But even the pain was beautiful." — Crown Prince Rudolph (24:26)

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Timeline of Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | Context | |-----------|--------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:16 | Introduction/Narrator sets up legend | Overview of the Mayerling myth, mood-setting | | 02:00-04:00 | Marie prepares, goes to ball | Character introduction, Marie’s desires | | 04:14 | Marie and Rudolph’s first dance | Romantic tension grows | | 06:46 | The lovers’ moonlit walk | Emotional bond and first realization of love | | 08:28 | Marie meets the Empress and Rudolph | Identities revealed; love’s obstacles emerge | | 09:33-13:00 | Library scene, forbidden love declared | Critical emotional turning point, nature of their bond | | 14:32 | Gossip about the lovers | Societal disapproval and the growing scandal | | 16:27 | Domestic dream sequence | The “what if” of an ordinary life denied | | 18:01 | Marie’s mother’s confrontation | Moral and social stakes heightened | | 20:01 | Rudolph’s father’s ultimatum | The impossibility of their affair spelled out | | 22:21-26:24 | Farewell at Mayerling | The lovers’ final, tender moments; implied tragic ending | | 26:50 | Epilogue/Narrator concludes | Reflection on the legend and its meaning |

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Episode Tone and Language

• The episode is written and performed in a lush, sentimental style, evocative of classic romantic tragedies.
• Dialogue is often poetic and declarative, especially in scenes between Marie and Rudolph.
• The tone sways between joy, urgent passion, and profound melancholy, ending on a bittersweet note.

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Summary for New Listeners

“Rendezvous at Mayerling” is a moving dramatization of doomed love set against the backdrop of imperial duty and societal strictures. The play follows its protagonists from the giddy flirtation of a fateful ball, through stolen moments and dreams of ordinary happiness, to their poignant last night together. Their love—consuming, forbidden, and ultimately sacrificial—unfolds in beautifully scripted dialogue, laced with longing and candor. The episode is a testament both to the spirit of old-time radio storytelling and to the timeless allure of romantic legend.

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For further listening, check Harold’s Old Time Radio archives for more Golden Age dramatizations.

Transcript

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

There are many stories and many legends about the romance of Marie Faecera and Crown Prince Rudolph. The actual historic facts have been set down for all to read, but the events leading up to those happenings have been cloaked in legend. Here, then, is one of these legends. Rendezvous at Mayerline.

[Marie]

Fasten my pendant. Anna. There you are, mademoiselle. How do I look? In all my life, I have never seen anyone so beautiful. You will be the belle of the ball. You know, Anna, I have the strangest feeling. I think this night is going to be important to me. And why should it not be? You are young and beautiful, and you are going to a masked ball in the prettiest costume any young lady could want. Where is my mask?

[Marie’s Mother]

Here it is.

[Marie]

Hide by your glass.

[Marie’s Mother]

Come, Marie. Your father and Arnold are already waiting in the carriage.

[Marie]

I wish Arnold were not going with us. Arnold is so dull. He always says the same things.

[Marie’s Mother]

Arnold is of good family and he will make you a very good match. What more do you want?

[Marie]

I want someone who is challenging and romantic. I want someone who makes it fun to be alive.

[Marie’s Mother]

Arnold is a very fine young man.

[Marie]

Arnold, you watch. As soon as we start to dance, he'll say, marie, you do look most charming tonight.

[Marie’s Mother]

And then he'll wait a while and

[Marie]

he'll say, marie, you are the most splendid dancer I know. And then he is sure to say,

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Marie, you do look most charming tonight.

[Marie]

Thank you Arnold.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Not at all, Marie. You are the most splendid dancer. I know.

[Marie]

Arnold, I feel a bit faint. Would you mind? I'd like to go over by the balcony a moment.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Of course, Marie. I hope you feel better though. We've just arrived and we have the whole evening ahead of us.

[Marie]

Yes, the whole evening. Arnold, would you mind getting me a glass of water?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Of course, Marie. Will you be all right alone?

[Marie]

Yes, of course. I'll be quite all right alone.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I won't be long, Marie. What is such a pretty young lady doing all by herself out here on the balcony?

[Marie]

Oh, I beg your pardon. I didn't know anyone was out here.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Don't go.

[Marie]

Well, I. I can't stay out here. I don't even know you.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Well, I don't know you and I'm going to take a chance. After all, this is a masked ball and a great many strangers will get acquainted tonight on the pretext of pretending they're talking to an old friend.

[Marie]

I don't know you, do I?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

No, not yet.

[Marie]

Isn't it strange? I feel as though I do.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Isn't it strange? So do I. Will you dance?

[Marie]

Yes, I'd love to.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Something about the way you fit into my arms. That's just about perfect.

[Marie]

I really should leave you. You know. I had a partner. Yes, I sent him for some water about. Oh, it must have been two hours ago.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

You think he may come looking for you?

[Marie]

Oh, definitely. He's a very conscientious young man.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Do you know what I do about conscientious people?

[Marie’s Mother]

No, what?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I run away from them. What do you say?

[Marie]

Where shall we run to?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Any place, every place. Come on, let's take a look at Vienna. I'd like to see how it looks with you beside me.

[Marie]

How does it usually look?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Serious, dodgy, dull. But I don't think it'll look that way tonight, do you?

[Marie]

No, I don't think it'll look like that tonight.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Marie.

Marie.

[Marie]

That's my young man.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Come on out through this door.

[Rudolph’s Father]

Marie.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Oh, Marie.

[Marie]

And then what did you do?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I said, madame, no self respecting captain of the guard would think of going out with a lady he didn't know. I must be excused.

[Marie]

Oh, you're a captain of the guard.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Well, I was that night anyhow.

[Marie]

Oh, it's a wonderful night, isn't it? Just look at that moon.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I ordered it especially for you. I called in Alphonse just before I left the ball. Alphonse is my man. Alphonse, I said. I want a very special moon tonight because I'm Going to meet a very special young lady.

[Marie]

You may be disappointed when I take off my mask.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

No. Give me your arm. Let us walk along the Danube and pretend that we've walked here every night for the past three months.

[Marie]

Why three months?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Because with three months acquaintance behind us, you couldn't possibly be offended if I kissed you. I am going to kiss you, you know.

[Marie]

You're very sure of yourself, aren't you?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I am tonight. I don't know why. But I only know tonight that we met, that I had to kiss you. Oh, darling. Darling.

[Marie]

I've waited a long time for you. And for that kiss, I've waited a very long time.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Take off that mask.

[Marie]

Take off yours.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

All right. Hello, my darling.

[Marie]

Hello, my darling. Look, it's almost daylight. This has been the most beautiful evening of my life.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Yeah. I'm sorry. It's over. Come, I'll take you to your door.

[Marie]

When will I see you again?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I don't know. As soon as possible.

[Marie]

Isn't it funny? I don't know who you are or anything about you. I don't even know your name. I only know that there's always been a loneliness inside of me. And now it's gone.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

You're sweet. You're so very sweet. Does it matter that you don't know my name or who I am?

[Marie]

No. All that matters is that at last I've met you.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

You know, I. I never in my life believed that people actually did fall in love at first sight. But they do, don't they?

[Marie]

Oh, yes, they do.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I'll see you soon.

[Marie]

I'll be waiting.

[Marie’s Mother]

Well, Marie, where have you been?

[Marie]

I don't know how to answer that. I think I'm in heaven.

[Marie’s Mother]

Are you aware that it's daylight now? Your father and Arnold and I were nearly frantic. Whom did you leave the ball?

[Marie]

I don't know his name.

[Marie’s Mother]

You don't know his name? Marie, what's come over you?

[Marie]

You'd never understand.

[Marie’s Mother]

Mama. You are a shameless girl. If I ever know you to do anything so disgraceful again, I shall send you away from Vienna forever. Now get to your bed. I suppose you've forgotten that you're to be presented to the Empress this afternoon.

[Marie]

I had forgotten. I had forgotten everything in the world.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Your Majesty, the Baroness Fatiera and her daughter, Baroness Marie Fatiera.

[Marie’s Mother]

Your Majesty.

[Marie]

Your Majesty. Your daughter is very lovely. Baroness Vecera.

[Marie’s Mother]

Your Majesty is most common. Gracious.

[Marie]

Tell me, Marie, would you like to join my ladies in waiting here at court? Oh, your Majesty would be the greatest honor of my Life. It would be a pleasure to have you. I've known your father and mother a long time. You've been away at school, or I would have invited you before. Oh, Rudolph. Come and meet the Baroness Vetera and her daughter, Marie. This is my son, Crown Prince Rudolph. Baroness Vachera, and the Baroness Marie Bechera.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Baroness, it's indeed a pleasure to meet you both.

[Marie]

Isn't Stephanie coming to the reception, Rudolph?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

No, mother. She isn't feeling well today.

[Marie]

Rudolph's wife is not as strong as our Austrian girls. Won't you introduce Marie to some of the other Rudolph, while I have a chat with her mother?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I'll be delighted. Will you take my arm, Baroness?

[Marie]

With pleasure, your Highness.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Come in here where we can be alone. I think you've met everyone. Anyway, you aren't. You're sorry you came, aren't you? I would have told you last night who I was, but I was afraid you would run away. So I thought, tonight we'll keep everything shut out. Then whatever happens, we shall have had that much. At any event.

[Marie]

You meant never to see me again.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I would have tried to stay away from you. I don't know whether I would have succeeded.

[Marie]

Are you in love with Stephanie?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I'm in love with you. My marriage is the usual royal marriage, my dear. I've never been in love with. I've never been in love in my life. Until now.

[Marie]

We mustn't stay here in the library. Someone will come hunting for us.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Not while the refreshments are being served. Marie, what are we to do?

[Marie]

What can we do?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Two things. Either see each other or not see each other.

[Marie]

The wise thing is not exactly the happy thing, is it?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Marie, don't turn away from me. Look at me.

[Marie]

I don't want to look at you. If I do, I'll be lost because I must not see you again. We should never have met.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

We had to meet. We belong to each other.

[Marie]

Marie, please don't put your arms around me. You were a prince and married. You can never belong to me.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

But I do belong to.

[Marie]

It's wrong. It's wicked.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

No, no. You're saying those things because you've heard other people say them. Is it wrong to be happy? Is it wicked when together we have a world of our own that is beautiful and exciting and sweet and because you're married. What kind of a marriage is it? Because the heads of two governments think marriage is politics? Does that make it good and right and fine? A marriage is only good when it's between two people who want to Live together because they cannot bear to live apart. Oh, Marie, if I could marry you.

[Marie’s Mother]

Don't.

[Marie]

Don't say those things. We have no future. Not together. Let's not talk of what might have been or should have been.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Marie, the hours we live run out swiftly. We've already wasted much of the time that we could have been together. Let's take the hours we have and live them as they come. Let us take whatever measure of happiness life will give us.

[Marie]

And how will it end?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I don't know. But if it matters how it ends, then go now. Marie. I won't follow you. I won't ever try to see you again. I'll respect your judgment. Well, Marie.

[Marie]

Oh, my darling. My darling. I cannot say I will not see you again. It doesn't matter how it ends if I can be with you. You are all the happiness that I can know in my lifetime. I know that whether it's wrong or right or good or bad is beyond my power to judge now. I only know I love you. And I must see you or I will die.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Marie,

[Marie]

let us take the hours and live them as they come. Without questions, without regrets, until they end. If sorrow comes, when sorrow comes.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

When sorrow comes, we will meet it together. Don't cry. Please don't cry. Marie.

[Marie]

I. I think gloves like ours, Rudolph are always set to tears.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

No. This hour will be gay from the beginning.

[Marie]

It will be gay from the beginning until the ending.

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

And now, the second act of Rendezvous with My Ling. Starring Victor Jory as the crown Prince and featuring Claire Neeson as Marie.

[Rudolph’s Father]

I suppose you've heard about Crown Prince Rudolph and that girl, that Baroness Vecera.

[Marie]

I should say I have. Everyone in Austria has heard about them. Shameless pair. I saw them myself last night dancing at Auergarten.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I love to dance with you. You have wings when you dance.

[Marie]

It's because I'm dancing with you.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Look, everyone is looking at us.

[Marie]

No, there are no people there. We are dancing alone across a star without another human being inside.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Let's dance forever.

[Marie]

Yes, let us dance forever.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Well, I don't know what you think about it, but I think the prince is a disgrace to the whole country.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I don't know why his father or his wife doesn't do something about it. You know, I saw them riding in a carriage yesterday through the Vienna woods at positively breakneck speed.

[Marie]

I have to run out faster.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Oh, this is the best team I've ever had. What a pair of horse.

[Marie]

I've never ridden like this in my life. It's like rushing to meet life, isn't it?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

I'll have to check them. We're almost to the end.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Whoa.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Oh, they're steady. Steady.

[Marie]

I hope they have supper already for us. I'm starved to death.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

What would you eat?

[Marie]

What does the Crown Prince usually eat? Peacock's breasts and lark's tongue.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

And what does a baroness usually eat?

[Marie’s Mother]

Oh.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

How about roast beef?

[Marie]

Wonderful, darling.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

You're such a good fellow, Marie. You have such a zest for living.

[Marie]

Yes, because I want every moment to be very full. I'm telling you, I saw them with my own eyes last night walking beside the Danube outside the city, arm in arm.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Ask me for something. Something you've always wanted. I'd like to give you the world.

[Marie]

You have given me the world.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

There's nothing that would make you more happy.

[Marie]

Yes, there is. But you couldn't give it to me, Rudolph.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

No. Tell me.

[Marie]

I'd like a house. Yes, A small house somewhere out here beside the Danube. A house that you would be the heart of, Rudolph. A friendly house where we could invite the people we love to come and laugh with us.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yes.

[Marie]

And that would stretch to make room for two or three little boys who would look like you and scowl like you and smile that same quick smile that makes my heart turn open.

[Marie’s Mother]

Who does?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Oh, my dear.

[Marie]

You see? I told you you couldn't give it

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

to me, such dreams are for the people, never for rulers.

[Marie]

All over the country, people are sitting before their fires now in houses like that. And few of them know how fortunate they are or how desperately we'd like to be one of them.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

The world has no place in it for you or me. The world has locked its doors and set its words against us. We have only each other.

[Marie]

Marie, that is so much more than many people have.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Rudolph, you are my world. You're my life and my love and my happiness. I'll never give you up, Marie. Even though I die for it, I'll never give you up.

[Marie]

Oh, Rudolph. Even though I die for it, I'll never give you up.

[Marie’s Mother]

Marie. You are never to see Crown Prince Rudolph again. I forbid you. Do you realize that everyone in the world is gossiping about.

[Marie]

I don't care what anyone in the world is saying. It's no one's concern but our own.

[Marie’s Mother]

You are behaving shamelessly, sneaking out at all hours, telling me you're going to meet some friend in the afternoon. And meeting that man constantly, lying, deceiving. A year this has been going on. In spite of everything I've said, I'm ashamed to have to acknowledge who is my daughter.

[Marie]

Mother, please. Please listen to me now. Try to understand.

[Marie’s Mother]

I shall never understand, nor do I want to understand. What is right is right. What is wrong is wrong. There is no compromise that can be made with honor. Rudolph is married and he is the future ruler of Oakheart.

[Marie]

I love him.

[Marie’s Mother]

You have no right to love him.

[Marie]

Do you think you can say you must not love and that will make a difference if you do? You have no comprehension of love like this. We didn't choose to fall in love. We didn't plan it. It just happened. That's all happened. The moment I looked at him, it was like coming home. I know he's married. I know he's the future emperor. But knowing it doesn't make any difference, because we belong together. Together we are somehow complete and content and apart. Neither of us has anything. If that were not true of him too, then I would do as you ask. But as long as he needs me and wants me, I will see it.

[Marie’s Mother]

You are a wicked, shameless girl.

[Marie]

I'm not wicked. My love is good and honest and real. If we were hypocrites or bad people, we would have hidden our romance and lied about it. You shall not. You cannot make me ashamed of my love. It is my pride. It is my honor. It is my whole life.

[Marie’s Mother]

Arie, you are never to See the crown prince again. This disgraceful affair is going to end right now and forever.

[Rudolph’s Father]

Rudolph, there is no use in any further discussion. I forbid you to see this woman again.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

You don't understand, Father. You will never understand.

[Narrator/Announcer]

No, I don't understand.

[Rudolph’s Father]

What kind of a man are you? What kind of a prince? You have no right to sully the Habsburg name. You're disgracing your country and the throne that you will inherit. I order you to put this woman from your life. You are a prince of the House of Habsburg. Your dignity and honor is the dignity and honor of the entire lineage.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

And if I refuse to do as you ask?

[Rudolph’s Father]

Then I will take matters into my own hands and see that she is sent where you will never see her. Well, Rudolph?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Very well, father. I will do as you ask. I'll meet her just once more and tell her. Then you will have nothing to fear from me again.

[Rudolph’s Father]

I don't mean to be unfeeling, Ralph. I know what it is to love. But love must be put aside if it is at odds with honor. When will you tell her?

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Going for a day's hunting Myeling? I'll take her with me. You surely cannot deny me the right to tell her in my own way.

[Rudolph’s Father]

You give me your word that this will be your last rendezvous?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yes.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

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[Marie]

Come out on the balcony. Rudolph. Look, the stars are fading. It's a beautiful night. I'm glad it's so beautiful. You know, it's a strange feeling to look at the stars and the moon and know that you'll never see them again. You suddenly feel that you should look long and hard at everything.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

It's not necessary. Necessary for you to go through this. Marie. I'll leave you behind if you like. You're young, you're lovely. You have so much to live for.

[Marie]

I have nothing to live for in a world that you flatter left. Come sit beside the fire with a little while.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Here, let me put my arm around you. Darling, tell me if we had had that house, what would it be like?

[Marie]

Well, every morning I would have gotten up early and fixed your breakfast. And we would have had it in front of the fire. And then I would have walked with you down to get the carriage and ridden aways with you and then walked home.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

And where would I be going?

[Marie]

To work.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Oh, I see.

[Marie]

And then I would have cleaned the house and dusted and made everything right for you to come home to. And in the afternoon, the boys and I would have had a frolic outside. And then I would get them all sweet scrubbed and clean and ready for their father.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

And I'd come home and we'd have dinner and tuck the children in bed. And then we'd. We'd sit like this, night after night. Growing old. Growing old together. Oh, I'd have liked that house. I wish the world had a house for us, Marie.

[Marie]

I know.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Are you sorry? Have you any regrets?

[Marie]

Regrets?

[Marie’s Mother]

Not regret.

[Marie]

1. I've had a year of more happiness than most people have in a lifetime.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

We've completed our lifetime this year, Marie.

[Marie]

I know. And it's been beautiful.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Maybe the beauty hurt a little now and then when people closed in on it. But even the pain was beautiful.

[Marie]

Oh, Rudolph. The only thing that frightens me a little is that we're facing the unknown now. I may never feel your arms or your lips again. I may never find you again.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Yes, you'll find me. Will only be a step. We'll cross the threshold together and then we'll find peace. There's no peace on earth for us, my darling. There never would be.

[Marie]

I know. And all day I've been praying that we will find it. Now look, my darling, it's almost dawn. Remember the night we met the first time we saw the dawn together.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

And now it's the last time in this world. We've used up the hour dream now it's the last hour. Almost the last moment. Here, let me carry you.

[Marie]

Kiss me good night, Rudolph, my darling. Good night, my darling. Sweet dreams. God be with you. Until we meet again. Rudolph. There is a lion. Do you know it? Parting is such sweet sorrow that we

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

shall meet again when it be moral.

[Marie]

We shall meet again. We shall meet again. Look, the sun is coming up.

[Crown Prince Rudolph]

Yes, we shall be free before it fully rises. We promised it would be our last rendezvous and we've kept our word. Close your eyes, my darling. Close your eyes.

[Marie]

We shall meet again when it bemorrow.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And so they kept the last rendezvous at Mireling and the world that had denied them the right to love talked about them, wondered about them, finally wept and left them in peace.

[Narrator/Announcer]

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