Drummle Monologue from The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

From The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Arthur Wing Pinero

male · dramatic · 1:21 min

It so happens that to-night I was exceptionally early in dressing for dinner. (MISQUITH.: For which dinner--the fish and cutlet?) For this dinner, of course--really, Frank! At a quarter to eight, in fact, I found myself trimming my nails, with ten minutes to spare. Just then enter my man with a note--would I hasten, as fast as cab could carry me, to old Lady Orreyed in Bruton Street?--"sad trouble." Now, recollect, please, I had ten minutes on my hands, old Lady Orreyed was a very dear friend of my mother's, and was in some distress. (AUBREY.: Cayley, come to the fish and cutlet? MISQUITH and JAYNE. Yes, yes, and the pancake!) Upon my word! Well, the scene in Bruton Street beggars description; the women servants looked scared, the men drunk; and there was poor old Lady Orreyed on the floor of her boudoir like Queen Bess among her pillows.

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