Builder Monologue from A Family Man : in three acts

From A Family Man : in three acts by John Galsworthy

male · defiant · 1:09 min

If the law thinks it can force me to be one of your weak-kneed sentimentalists who let everybody do what they like-- (RALPH: There are a good many who stand on their rights left, John.) (Absorbed) What! How can men stand on their rights left? (JOURNALIST: I'm afraid you had a painful experience, sir.) Every kind of humiliation. I spent the night in a stinking cell. I haven't eaten since breakfast yesterday. Did they think I was going to eat the muck they shoved in? And all because in a moment of anger--which I regret, I regret!--I happened to strike my daughter, who was interfering between me and my wife. The thing would be funny if it weren't so disgusting. A man's house used to be sanctuary. What is it now? With all the world poking their noses in? He stands before the fire with his head bent, excluding as it were his interviewer and all the world.

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