Alma Monologue from The Silver Shield: An Original Comedy in Three Acts

From The Silver Shield: An Original Comedy in Three Acts by Sydney Grundy

female · defiant · 47 sec

Oh, probably enough! Men are a bad lot, and he's one of them. (LUCY: Ned wasn't bad!) Why did you leave him then? ((turning on her quickly.)) You love him? (thrusting her on sofa, and kneeling down beside her) Yes, you do, or you wouldn't resent the way I spoke of him; and loving him, you should have trusted him. (LUCY: To be deceived!) Better to trust and be deceived, than to suspect and deceive yourself. You're a fond, foolish girl, who've done your best to wreck your own life and your husband's too. You've done me a great wrong, and now I'm going to have my revenge.

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