Farrant Monologue from Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts

From Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

male · philosophical · 56 sec

Otherwise... well, we must admit, Cantelupe, that if it hadn't been for the particular consequence of this it wouldn't be anything to be so mightily shocked about. (CANTELUPE: I disagree.) My dear fellow, it's our business to make laws and we know the difference of saying in one of 'em you may or you must. Who ever proposed to insist on pillorying every case of spasmodic adultery? One would never have done! Some of these attachments do more harm... to the third party, I mean ... some less. But it's only when a menage becomes socially impossible that a sensible man will interfere. (He adds quite unnecessarily.) I'm speaking quite impersonally, of course.

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