f Leonardo while resolving to do what is expected of her: marry the Bridegroom and live a conventional life. The difficulty with that choice, even though the Bride acknowledges that the Bridegroom is a good man, is the factor of unsatisfied passion. And the problems associated with satisfying that passion in the face of conflicting claims on one's whole experience of comfortable moral life, point toward catastrophe. In II.2, when Leonardo contrives to pay a visit to the Bride, a brief exchange says worlds about must have been a hasty parting and failure to resolve their relationship:
BRIDE. What have you come here to do?
LEONARDO. Tied up by you, done with your two hands (Lorca 59)
This exchange of recriminations does not conceal--indeed it highlights--the depth of passion that each still feels and has always felt for the other.
From one point of view, the fact that the old passion between the Bride and Leonardo was not sexually consummated can be interpreted as a curiosity of moral and social conve
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