SECRET RENDEZVOUS: Capulet Heiress Caught Whispering to Montague Boy From Her Own Balcony!
Juliet Capulet, photographed from below — though she swears she did not know anyone was listening.
Our sources report that young Romeo, still besotted after Sunday's masquerade, could not stay away. He was found loitering in the Capulet orchard well past midnight, beneath Juliet's own window, of all places.
What he overheard, by his own account, was Juliet — believing herself quite alone — speaking his name aloud to the night air, wondering why on earth he had to be a Montague at all.
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."
Romeo, ever the romantic (and ever the eavesdropper), revealed himself at once. What followed was, by all accounts, hours of vows, promises, and — our readers will not be surprised to hear — a complete disregard for the feud between their two houses.
By dawn the pair had resolved to marry in secret, with the help of Friar Laurence, who — our sources say — agreed in hopes that the union might finally end the long war between Montague and Capulet.