Monologue

Gertrude Monologue from The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

From The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith by Arthur Wing Pinero

42 sec

This frightens you. Simple print and paper, so you pretend to regard it; but it frightens you. I called you a mad thing just now. A week ago I did think you half-mad--a poor, ill-used creature, a visionary, a moral woman living immorally; yet, in spite of all, a woman to be loved and pitied. But now I'm beginning to think you're only frail--wanton. Oh, you're not so mad as not to know you're wicked! And so this frightens you.

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