You say that I have kept my faith?—No, I haven't! And even if I should seem faithful to you, I have long ago ceased to be so in my own mind. I know the desires that have burned within me.... I know how often my body has trembled and yearned in the presence of some man.... And what I told you last night—that I am waiting with wide-open arms, full of longings and expectations—that's true, Amadeus—no less true than it is that I am standing face to face with you now.
AMADEUS
If that be true, what has kept you from satisfying all your longings—you, who have been as free as I have?
CECILIA
I am a woman, Amadeus. And we seem to be like that. Something makes us hesitate even when we have already made up our minds.
AMADEUS
And because you seemed guilty in your own mind, you remained silent?... And for no other reason have you left me—me, whose sufferings you might have relieved by a single word—to believe you as guilty as myself?
CECILIA
Perhaps....
AMADEUS