If you dont take that back and apologize for your bad manners, I'll give you as good a hiding as ever-- (BENTLEY: Help! Johnny's beating me! Oh! Murder!.) Dont be a fool. Stop that noise, will you. I'm not going to touch you. Sh--sh-- Hypatia rushes in through the inner door, followed by Mrs Tarleton, and throws herself on her knees by Bentley. Mrs Tarleton, whose knees are stiffer, bends over him and tries to lift him. Mrs Tarleton is a shrewd and motherly old lady who has been pretty in her time, and is still very pleasant and likeable and unaffected. Hypatia is a typical English girl of a sort never called typical: that is, she has an opaque white skin, black hair, large dark eyes with black brows and lashes, curved lips, swift glances and movements that flash out of a waiting stillness, boundless energy and audacity held in leash.

Johnny Monologue from Misalliance

Rehearse Johnny's monologue