- [Isobel has joined a convent]
- François de Ricci: No! I refuse to let Isabelle lead the life of a recluse. It's not natural!
- Mother Superior: What do you know of it? In war, you have learned to defy death and to inflict it. Here we learn to defy death and prepare for it.
- François de Ricci: By losing Isabelle, I've lost everything. I doubt they can do much for me.
- La Comtessa: No woman deserves such devotion.
- François de Ricci: This one does!
- La Comtessa: If she loved you, she wouldn't have taken her vows.
- François de Ricci: She thought I was dead.
- La Comtessa: But she exposed you to the Spanish! She saw you kissing another woman and, in her anger, denounced you, effectively sentencing you to death.
- François de Ricci: Even if that is true, I forgive her. Jealousy is proof of love.
- La Comtessa: I see no other woman can console you.
- François de Ricci: No.
- La Comtessa: Then I am happy. So many men comfort themselves with one woman, then run to another, then a third.
- [last lines]
- Isabelle de Sospel: I have a wish. I hope God grants us a long time on Earth to love one another. If, by misfortune, he calls you back to him, I will ask him to let me follow you.
- François de Ricci: I will ask him the same favor: to live a long, long time with you, not to live a moment longer than you.
- Isabelle de Sospel: Neither you without me nor me without you.
- François de Ricci: Neither me without you nor you without me.