Lady Markby Monologue from An Ideal Husband

From An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

female · contemplative · 1:16 min

Well, dear Mrs. Cheveley, I hope you have enjoyed yourself. Sir Robert is very entertaining, is he not? (MRS. CHEVELEY: Most entertaining! I have enjoyed my talk with him immensely.) He has had a very interesting and brilliant career. And he has married a most admirable wife. Lady Chiltern is a woman of the very highest principles, I am glad to say. I am a little too old now, myself, to trouble about setting a good example, but I always admire people who do. And Lady Chiltern has a very ennobling effect on life, though her dinner-parties are rather dull sometimes. But one can’t have everything, can one? And now I must go, dear. Shall I call for you to-morrow? (MRS. CHEVELEY: Thanks.) We might drive in the Park at five. Everything looks so fresh in the Park now!

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