Juno Monologue from Overruled

From Overruled by Bernard Shaw

male · philosophical · 1:17 min

No: believe me, that's a foreigner's mistake: we are the most romantic people in the world, we English. Why, my very presence here is a romance. (MRS: LUNN Indeed?) Yes. You've guessed, of course, that I'm a married man. (MRS. LUNN: Oh, that's all right. I'm a married woman.) Thank Heaven for that! To my English mind, passion is not real passion without guilt. I am a red-blooded man, Mrs. Lunn: I can't help it. The tragedy of my life is that I married, when quite young, a woman whom I couldn't help being very fond of. I longed for a guilty passion--for the real thing--the wicked thing; and yet I couldn't care twopence for any other woman when my wife was about. Year after year went by: I felt my youth slipping away without ever having had a romance in my life; for marriage is all very well; but it isn't romance. There's nothing wrong in it, you see.

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