Katerina Monologue from The Storm

From The Storm by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

female · anguished · 1:22 min

It was an evil day for me when I saw you. Joy I have known little of, but of sorrow, of sorrow, how much! And how much is still before me! But why think of what is to be! I am seeing you now, that they cannot take away from me; and I care for nothing more. All I wanted was to see you. Now my heart is much easier; as though a load had been taken off me. I kept thinking you were angry with me, that you were cursing me.... (BORIS: How can you! How can you!) No, that's not what I mean; that's not what I wanted to say! I was sick with longing for you, that's it; and now, I have seen you.... (BORIS: They must not come upon us here!) Stay a minute! Stay a minute! Something I meant to say to you! I've forgotten! Something I had to say! Everything is in confusion in my head, I can remember nothing.

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