Duchess Monologue from The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts

From The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

female · romantic · 1:03 min

Ah, but you fail to see; it was the daring of this proceeding that attracted me--the romance of it! (QUEX: Romance! still!) Always. It is the very blood in my veins. It keeps me young. I shall die a romantic girl, however old I may be. (QUEX: You ought, you really ought, to have flourished in the Middle Ages.) You have frequently made that observation. (Rising.) I do live in the Middle Ages, in my imagination. I live in every age in which Love was not a cool, level emotion, but a fierce, all-conquering flame--a flame that grew in the heart of a woman, that of a sudden spread through her whole organism, that lit up her eyes with a light more refulgent than the light of sun or moon! (Laying her hand upon his arm.) Oh, oh, this poor, thin, modern sentiment miscalled Love--!

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