Alice Monologue from Alice Sit-By-The-Fire

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

female · anguished · 1:11 min

‘Say again, Robert, that everything is sure to come right just as we planned it would.’ (COLONEL: ‘Of course it will.’) ‘Robert, there is something I want to tell you. You know how dear my children are to me, but Amy is the dearest of all. She is dearer to me, Robert, than you yourself.’ (COLONEL: ‘Very well, memsahib.’) ‘Robert dear, Amy has come to a time in her life when she is neither quite a girl nor quite a woman. There are dark places before us at that age through which we have to pick our way without much help. I can conceive dead mothers haunting those places to watch how their child is to fare in them. Very frightened ghosts, Robert. I have thought so long of how I was to be within hail of my girl at this time, holding her hand--my Amy, my child.’

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