Monologue

Lady Chiltern Monologue from An Ideal Husband

From An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

female · defiant · 44 sec

That makes no matter. She must know at once that she has been mistaken in you—and that you are not a man to do anything base or underhand or dishonourable. Write here, Robert. Write that you decline to support this scheme of hers, as you hold it to be a dishonest scheme. Yes—write the word dishonest. She knows what that word means. Yes; that will do. And now the envelope. Have this letter sent at once to Claridge’s Hotel. There is no answer.

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