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

(With a smile.) You'd hardly know me. I'll be a little Chinese girl living in the foreigner's house. Have you ever smoked opium? (GEORGE: No. Who does that belong to?) It's amah's. One day you shall try and I'll make your pipes for you. Lee Tai used to say that no one could make them better than I. (GEORGE: However low down the ladder you go there's apparently always a rung lower.) After you've smoked a pipe or two your mind grows extraordinarily clear. You have a strange facility of speech and yet no desire to speak. All the puzzles of this puzzling world grow plain to you. You are tranquil and free. Your soul is gently released from the bondage of your body, and it plays, happy and careless, like a child with flowers. Death cannot frighten you, and want and misery are like blue mountains far away. You feel a heavenly power possess you and you can venture all things because suffering cannot touch you. Your spirit has wings and you fly like a bird through the starry wastes of the night. You hold space and time in the hollow of your hand. Then you come upon the dawn, all pearly and gray and silent, and there in the distance, like a dreamless sleep, is the sea.

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

Rehearse Daisy's monologue