Monologue

Lucas Monologue from The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

From The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith by Arthur Wing Pinero

44 sec

Oh you may be perfectly open with my people as to my present mode of life. Only-- Only I want you hear me declare again plainly that but for the care and devotion of that good woman over there, but for the solace of that woman's companionship, I should have been dead months ago--I should have died raving in my awful bedroom on the ground floor of that foul Roman hotel. Malarial fever, of course! Doctors don't admit--do they?--that it's possible for strong men to die of miserable marriages.

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