Louis Monologue from The Doctor's Dilemma

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:17 min

Just so. And yet you believe that Jennifer is a bad lot because you think I told you so. (RIDGEON: Were you lying?) No; but you were smelling out a scandal instead of keeping your mind clean and wholesome. I can just play with people like you. I only asked you had you seen Jennifer's marriage lines; and you concluded straight away that she hadnt got any. You dont know a lady when you see one. (B. B: What do you mean by that, may I ask?) Now, I'm only an immoral artist; but if YOUD told me that Jennifer wasnt married, I'd have had the gentlemanly feeling and artistic instinct to say that she carried her marriage certificate in her face and in her character. But you are all moral men; and Jennifer is only an artist's wife--probably a model; and morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. Arnt you ashamed of yourselves? Can one of you look me in the face after it?

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