Henriette Monologue from There Are Crimes and Crimes

From There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg

female · contemplative · 1:11 min

None, but I should be grateful if you would talk of something else. (MAURICE: Suppose we talk of--love?) Of that you don't talk until it is over. (MAURICE: Have you been in love with Adolphe?) I don't know. The goodness of his nature drew me like some beautiful, all but vanished memory of childhood. Yet there was much about his person that offended my eye, so that I had to spend a long time retouching, altering, adding, subtracting, before I could make a presentable figure of him. When he talked, I could notice that he had learned from you, and the lesson was often badly digested and awkwardly applied. You can imagine then how miserable the copy must appear now, when I am permitted to study the original. That's why he was afraid of having us two meet; and when it did happen, he understood at once that his time was up.

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