Isabella Monologue from The School for Husbands

From The School for Husbands by Molière

female · defiant · 49 sec

Take it then. (SGAN: Well, let us see what he has dared to say to you.) Heavens! Take care not to open it! (SGAN: Why so?) Will you make him believe that it is I? A respectable girl ought always to refuse to read the letters a man sends her. The curiosity which she thus betrays shows a secret pleasure in listening to gallantries. I think it right that this letter should be peremptorily returned to Valère unopened, that he may the better learn this day the great contempt which my heart feels for him; so that his passion may from this time lose all hope, and never more attempt such a transgression.

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