Builder Monologue from A Family Man : in three acts

From A Family Man : in three acts by John Galsworthy

male · defiant · 57 sec

If the law thinks it can back up revolt, it's damned well mistaken. I struck my daughter--I was in a passion, as you would have been. (JOURNALIST: I'm sure--) (Glaring at him) Well, I don't know that you would; you look a soft sort; but any man with any blood in him. (JOURNALIST: Can one ask what she was doing, sir? We couldn't get that point quite clear.) Doing? I just had my arm round my wife, trying to induce her to come home with me after a little family tiff, and this girl came at me. I lost my temper, and tapped her with my cane. And--that policeman brought by my own daughter--a policeman! If the law is going to enter private houses and abrogate domestic authority, where the hell shall we be?

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