Ellida Monologue from The Lady from the Sea

From The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

female · contemplative · 59 sec

I'll tell you everything as well as I can, and as far as I understand it. Come here and sit by me. (They sit down on the stones.) (Wangel: Well, Ellida, so--) That day when you came out there and asked me if I would be yours, you spoke so frankly and honestly to me about your first marriage. It had been so happy, you said. (Wangel: And so it was.) Yes, yes! I am sure of that, dear! It is not for that I am referring to it now. I only want to remind you that I, on my side, was frank with you. I told you quite openly that once in my life I had cared for another. That there had been a--a kind of engagement between us.

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