Crichton Monologue from The Admirable Crichton

From The Admirable Crichton by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

male · philosophical · 1:05 min

My lady, I am the son of a butler and a lady’s-maid--perhaps the happiest of all combinations, and to me the most beautiful thing in the world is a haughty, aristocratic English house, with every one kept in his place. Though I were equal to your ladyship, where would be the pleasure to me? It would be counterbalanced by the pain of feeling that Thomas and John were equal to me. (CATHERINE: But father says if we were to return to nature--) If we did, my lady, the first thing we should do would be to elect a head. Circumstances might alter cases; the same person might not be master; the same persons might not be servants. I can’t say as to that, nor should we have the deciding of it. Nature would decide for us. (LADY MARY: You seem to have thought it all out carefully, Crichton.) Yes, my lady.

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