Charteris Monologue from The Philanderer

From The Philanderer by Bernard Shaw

male · anguished · 55 sec

My dear, be reasonable. It was fully explained to her that it was to be broken off. (GRACE: Did she accept the explanation?) She did what a woman like Julia always does. When I explained personally, she said it was not not my better self that was speaking, and that she knew I still really loved her. When I wrote it to her with brutal explicitness, she read the letter carefully and then sent it back to me with a note to say that she had not had the courage to open it, and that I ought to be ashamed of having written it. (Comes beside Grace, and puts his left hand caressingly round her neck.) You see, dearie, she won't look the situation in the face.

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