Monologue

Fainall Monologue from The Way of the World

From The Way of the World by William Congreve

male · defiant · 39 sec

It may be so. I do not now begin to apprehend it. (MRS. MAR: What?) That I have been deceived, madam, and you are false. (MRS. MAR: That I am false? What mean you?) To let you know I see through all your little arts.—Come, you both love him, and both have equally dissembled your aversion. Your mutual jealousies of one another have made you clash till you have both struck fire. I have seen the warm confession red’ning on your cheeks, and sparkling from your eyes.

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