Alice Monologue from Alice Sit-By-The-Fire

From Alice Sit-By-The-Fire by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

female · dramatic · 1:13 min

‘It so took me aback, Amy, when you came into the room. How long have you had it up?’ AMY, with large eyes, ‘Not very long. I--I began only to-day.’ ALICE, imploringly, ‘Dear, put it down again. You are not grown up.’ AMY, almost sternly, ‘I feel I am a woman now.’ ALICE, abject, ‘A woman--you? Am I never to know my daughter as a girl!’ (AMY: ‘You were married before you were eighteen.’) ‘Ah, but I had no mother. And even at that age I knew the world.’ AMY, smiling sadly, ‘Oh, mother, not so well as I know it.’ ALICE, sharply, ‘What can you know of the world?’ AMY, shuddering, ‘More I hope, mother, than you will ever know.’ ALICE, alarmed, ‘My child!’ Seizing her: ‘Amy, tell me what you know.’ (AMY: ‘Don’t ask me, please. I have sworn not to talk of it.’) ‘Sworn? To whom?’

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