From East of Suez: A Play in Seven Scenes by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

We'll go to some city where there are no foreigners. And we shall be together always. We'll have a house high up on the bank and below us the river will flow, flow endlessly. (GEORGE: You seem to have got it all mapped out.) If you only knew how often I've dreamed of it. Oh, George, I want rest and peace too! I'm so tired. I want endless days to rest in. (With a puzzled look at him.) What is the matter? You look so strange. (GEORGE: I was thinking of all the things you've been saying to me.) If you think it'll be easier for you if you don't marry me, you need not. I don't care anything about that. I'll be your mistress and I'll lie hidden in your house so that no one shall know I'm there. I'll live like a Chinese woman. I'll be your slave and your plaything. I want to get away from all these Europeans. After all, China is the land of my birth and the land of my mother. China is crowding in upon me; I'm sick of these foreign clothes. I have a strange hankering for the ease of the Chinese dress. You've never seen me in it?

Daisy Monologue from East of Suez: A Play in Seven Scenes

Rehearse Daisy's monologue