I Had an Arranged Marriage With My Unrequited Love — Chapter 15
Dialogue Transcript
Dialogue Transcript I Had an Arranged Marriage With My Unrequited Love — Chapter 15 75
...I,
I JUST WANTED THE DUKE TO FEEL MORE AT EASE...
NO.
I CANNOT.
I WILL REJECT THAT PROPOSAL.
ABSOLUTELY NO KEEPING RESPECTIVE LOVERS, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT.
AND...
...LET'S PRETEND WE NEVER HEARD TODAY'S CONVERSATION.
YOU MAY TAKE YOUR LEAVE NOW.
THIS IS MY FIRST TIME SEEING HIS RAW, UNMASKED ANGER.
IS BEING CAUGHT WITH THEODORA BY ME REALLY THIS UNPLEASANT...?
YES, DUKE...
I KNOW YOU'RE BUSY, EXCUSE ME.
SOMETHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY WRONG...
...IRENE.
IS THIS MARRIAGE SO SUFFOCATING TO YOU...
THAT YOU'RE GOING OUT OF YOUR WAY TO PRESENT ANOTHER MAN TO ME?
WHY?
WHEN ON EARTH DID YOU SEE ME TOGETHER WITH THEODORA?
YOU SAID YOU WENT OUT YESTERDAY.
COULD IT BE THAT DAY, AFTER MEETING JOSHUA, YOU MADE ME THIS PROPOSAL?
I HAD PLANNED TO REPORT THAT JOURNALIST, TOM HOSLE, TO ALEXA
AND LET THE LAW HANDLE IT.
BUT...
THAT WHAT I COULD DO FOR YOU—
ABOVE ALL, SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE YOU HAPPY—
...WAS MERELY TO PERMIT ANOTHER MAN?
...I WANT TO KILL HIM.
THAT MAN RECEIVING YOUR LOVE—
IF ONLY I COULD WIPE HIM FROM THIS FACE OF THE EARTH...
...HA.
IF I KILL YOUR MAN, YOU'LL HATE ME FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
I WAS THE ONE WHO TRAPPED YOU WITHIN THE CAGE OF MARRIAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I HAVE NO RIGHT TO RESENT YOU,
NOR DO I DARE HAVE THE RIGHT TO FRIGHTEN YOU.
BECAUSE THE ONE WHO IS TRULY WRONG... IS ME.
I AM...
YOUR GRACE. WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE...
LATER, STEFAN.
HRN-GH, SOB...
HN-NGH...
HRN-GH, URGH...
HN-NGH...
I AM A FOUL, SELFISH BASTARD.
BUT...
RATHER THAN WATCHING YOU LOVE ANOTHER MAN RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES,
I'D RATHER...
I WAS REJECTED BY HIM.
IS HE SO INFATUATED WITH LADY THEODORA THAT HE DOESN’T EVEN NEED MY BODY?
OR AM I JUST THAT REPULSIVE TO HIM?
I JUST WANTED TO MAINTAIN THIS MARRIAGE.
WHY... DID EVERYTHING TURN OUT LIKE THIS?
...YOUR GRACE?
W-WEREN'T YOU BUSY WITH WORK? WHY AT THIS HOUR...
...IRENE.
THAT PROPOSAL ABOUT HAVING AN OFFICIAL LOVER FROM EARLIER...
IS IT STILL VALID?
......YES.
IF THE DUKE DESIRES IT, THEN...
...HA.
YOU'RE ACTING LIKE A FOOL.
PARDON?
WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY...
WHAT'S WITH HIM ALL OF A SUDDEN...?!
Y-YOUR GRACE...!
AH...!
I ONLY GAVE YOU THE FREEDOM I THOUGHT YOU WOULD WANT.
YET YOU...
WHY ARE YOU MAKING SUCH A PAINED FACE?
IF I UTTERED WORDS I DARED NOT SAY...
AAH, Y-YOUR GRACE...!
...I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE.
RIGHT NOW, THERE IS ONLY ONE THING I WANT TO BELIEVE.
JUST LIKE THAT DAY WHEN YOU WERE THOROUGHLY DRUNK.
THAT GAZE LOOKING AT ME...
Chapter Summary
Chapter 15 of I Had an Arranged Marriage With My Unrequited Love opens with Irene proposing to the Duke that they mutually keep lovers, and being shaken by a firm rejection. While Duke Felix angrily rejects the proposal and orders the conversation to be forgotten, Irene thinks he is angry about being caught with Theodora; Felix thinks Irene feels suffocated by the marriage and wants another man after meeting with Joshua, and, shaken by the matter of journalist Tom Hosle and jealousy, he appears before her again at night and asks if the proposal is still valid.