Jinny Monologue from The girl with the green eyes

From The girl with the green eyes by Clyde Fitch

female · anguished · 53 sec

Oh, there's more to the letter! (AUSTIN: Jinny, don't you see what you're doing?) Yes, I'm getting at the truth at last! (Reads.) "My heart aches for the blow you must have this evening! The man who loves you--" (AUSTIN: You shan't read any more; you're mad now!) I don't need the letter, the words are burning in here! (Pressing her hands to her forehead.) "The man who loves you isn't bad, only weak. However, I feel once we can shake off the burden of this present marriage "--oh! you--you brute to say that!--"you will never have cause to complain of him again! So far I have been able to keep Jinny in perfect ignorance, but I feel the blow must fall upon her now--" [ Interrupted.

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