Dancy Monologue from Loyalties

From Loyalties by John Galsworthy

male · anguished · 1:02 min

A debt of honour--it wouldn't wait. (MABEL: It was--it was to a woman. Ronny, don't lie any more.) (Grimly) Well! I wanted to save your knowing. I'd promised a thousand. I had a letter from her father that morning, threatening to tell you. All the same, if that tyke hadn't jeered at me for parlour tricks!--But what's the good of all this now? (Sullenly) Well--it may cure you of loving me. Get over that, Mab; I never was worth it--and I'm done for! (MABEL: The woman--have you--since--?) (Energetically) No! You supplanted her. But if you'd known I was leaving a woman for you, you'd never have married me. (He walks over to the hearth). MABEL too gets up. She presses her hands to her forehead, then walks blindly round to behind the sofa and stands looking straight in front of her.

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