Charteris Monologue from The Philanderer

From The Philanderer by Bernard Shaw

male · philosophical · 42 sec

And you have a theory that it would be pleasant to be married to Julia? (PARAMORE: I suppose so--in a sense.) That theory also will be upset, probably, before you're a year older. (PARAMORE: Always cynical, Charteris.) Never mind that. Now it's a perfectly damnable thing for you to hope that your liver theory is true, because it amounts to hoping that Craven will die an agonizing death. (This strikes Paramore as paradoxical; but it startles him.) But it's amiable and human to hope that your theory about Julia is right, because it amounts to hoping that she may live happily ever after.

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