Anne Monologue from Cæsar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts

From Cæsar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

female · contemplative · 52 sec

You know, Arthur, there's one compensation about the pains of love. While one's suffering from them one feels one will never get over them, but one does, and when they're gone they don't even leave a scar. One looks back and remembers one's torment and marvels that it was possible to suffer like that. (ARTHUR: You talk as though you'd had experience.) I have. (ARTHUR: I always look upon you as so calm and self-controlled.) I was desperately in love for years with a man. I should have made him an excellent wife, although it's I as says it. But it never occurred to him for an instant that my feelings were more than friendly. And eventually he married somebody else.

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