James Monologue from The Return of Peter Grimm

From The Return of Peter Grimm by David Belasco

male · anguished · 1:16 min

That you don't love him? (CATHERINE doesn't answer, but JAMES knows.)... And he's willing to take you like that?--a little girl like you--in that way.... God! He's rotten all the way through. He's even worse than I thought. Katie, I didn't mean to say a word of this to-day-- not a word; but a moment since--something made me change my mind--I don't know what!... (PETER smiles.) I felt that I must talk to you. You looked so young, so helpless, such a child. You've never had to think for yourself--you don't know what you're doing. You couldn't live under it, Catherine. You're making the greatest mistake possible, if you marry where you don't love. Why should you carry out your uncle's plans? You're going to be wretched for life to please a dead man who doesn't know it; or, if he does know it, regrets it bitterly.

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