Yes ... and then a hint that, in such a case, it would not prove very difficult to obtain a dispensation from the Pope....
AMADEUS
Has everybody gone crazy?... I can assure you that not a word of it is true!... You won't believe me?... I hope you don't think I would deny it, if.... Or do you actually mean that Cecilia might have ... from me.... Oh, dear, and you are supposed to be a friend of ours, a student of the human soul, and a poet!
ALBERT
I beg your pardon, but after what has happened it would not seem improbable....
AMADEUS
Not improbable...? It is simply impossible! Cecilia has never thought of it!
ALBERT
However, it ought not to surprise you that such a rumor has been started.
AMADEUS