Adolphe Monologue from There Are Crimes and Crimes

From There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg

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Henriette, let me tell you the grim truth. You, like he, have reached the border line of--insanity. The demons of distrust have got hold of you, and each of you is using his own sense of partial guilt to wound the other with. Let me see if I can make a straight guess: he has also come to suspect you of killing his child? (HENRIETTE: Yes, he's mad enough to do so.) You call his suspicions mad, but not your own. (HENRIETTE: You have first to prove the contrary, or that I suspect him unjustly.) Yes, that's easy. A new autopsy has proved that Marion died of a well-known disease, the queer name of which I cannot recall just now.

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