Isabella Monologue from The School for Husbands

From The School for Husbands by Molière

female · dramatic · 1:09 min

A wonderful secret! It is my sister who now compels me to go out, and who, for a purpose for which I have greatly blamed her, has borrowed my room, in which I have shut her up. (SGAN: What?) Could it be believed? She is in love with that suitor whom we have discarded. (SGAN: With Valère?) Desperately! Her passion is so great that I can compare it with nothing; you may judge of its violence by her coming here alone, at this hour, to confide to me her love, and to tell me positively that she will die if she does not obtain the object of her desire; that, for more than a year, a secret intercourse has kept up the ardour of their love; and that they had even pledged themselves to marry each other when their passion was new.

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