Skin game? Where do you get your lingo? (JILL: Keep to the point, Dodo.) Well, Jill, all life's a struggle between people at different stages of development, in different positions, with different amounts of social influence and property. And the only thing is to have rules of the game and keep them. New people like the Hornblowers haven't learnt those rules; their only rule is to get all they can. (JILL: Darling, don't prose. They're not half as bad as you think.) Well, when I sold Hornblower Longmeadow and the cottages, I certainly found him all right. All the same, he's got the cloven hoof. (Warming up) His influence in Deepwater is thoroughly bad; those potteries of his are demoralising--the whole atmosphere of the place is changing. It was a thousand pities he ever came here and discovered that clay. He's brought in the modern cutthroat spirit.

Hillcrist Monologue from The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy)

Rehearse Hillcrist's monologue