Gertrude Monologue from The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

From The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith by Arthur Wing Pinero

1:04 min

After the first few weeks--weeks, not months!--after the first few weeks of it, my husband treated me as cruelly----just as cruelly, I do believe, as your husband treated you. Wait! Now then! There was another man--one I loved--one I couldn't help loving! I could have found release with him, perhaps happiness of a kind. I resisted, came through it. They're dead--the two are dead! And here I am, a virtuous, reputable woman; saved by the blessed mercy of Heaven! There, you are not surprised any longer, Amos! "My friend, Mrs Ebbsmith!" Oh! Oh, if my little boy had been spared to me, he should have grown up tender to women--tender to women! He should, he should--!

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