Fanny Monologue from Fanny and the Servant Problem

From Fanny and the Servant Problem by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

female · comedic · 55 sec

I accept the excuse. (Laughs.) No, I was merely wondering what the “County” would have done if by any chance you had married her. Couldn’t have said you were marrying into your own kitchen in her case, because she was never in your kitchen—absolutely refused to enter it, I’m told. VERNON (laughs). It would have been a “nice point,” as they say in legal circles. If people had liked her, they’d have tried to forget that her cousins had ever been scullery-maids. If not, they’d have taken good care that nobody did. Bennet enters. He brings some cut flowers, with the “ placing ” of which he occupies himself.

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