Ethel Monologue from The Naturewoman

From The Naturewoman by Upton Sinclair

female · defiant · 43 sec

It's perfectly certain that he hated you and mother and Aunt Letitia and me and Freddy... every one of us; and that he had hated us for years and years; and that he left his money to Oceana to spite us all. (MRS. MASTERSON: That's precisely it, Ethel...) And I, for one, knowing that he hated me, don't want his money. And what is more, I refuse to touch his money. (DR. MASTERSON: Not being of age, my dear, you can't...) I am near enough of age to possess my self-respect. And I shall refuse to touch one penny.

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