Agatha Posket Monologue from The Magistrate

From The Magistrate by Arthur Wing Pinero

contemplative · 58 sec

No, certainly not. (To herself, watching them.) If I could only persuade Æneas to dismiss this protégée of his, and to engage a music-master, it would ease my conscience a little. If this girl knew the truth, how indignant she would be! And then there is the injustice to the boy himself, and to my husband's friends who are always petting and fondling and caressing what they call "a fine little man of fourteen!" Fourteen! Oh, what an idiot I have been to conceal my child's real age! (Looking at the clock.) Charlotte is late; I wish she would come. It will be a relief to worry her with my troubles.

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