Juno Monologue from Overruled

From Overruled by Bernard Shaw

any · philosophical · 55 sec

No: that was what was so tame about it. I wanted to suffer. You get so sick of being happily married. It's always the happy marriages that break up. At last my wife and I agreed that we ought to take a holiday. (MRS. LUNN: Hadn't you holidays every year?) Oh, the seaside and so on! That's not what we meant. We meant a holiday from one another. (MRS. LUNN: How very odd!) She said it was an excellent idea; that domestic felicity was making us perfectly idiotic; that she wanted a holiday, too. So we agreed to go round the world in opposite directions. I started for Suez on the day she sailed for New York.

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