Margery Monologue from The New Woman: An Original Comedy, in Four Acts

From The New Woman: An Original Comedy, in Four Acts by Sydney Grundy

female · defiant · 1:28 min

I am a wife, and I shall not forget it. If I have lost my husband's love, at least I'll save his honour. A public scandal mayn't mean much to you, but it means your wife's ruin--it means Gerald's. Gerald shall not be ruined! You shall go back to her! (SYLVESTER: Is it a challenge?) Challenge or not, you shall! It is ignoble to desert her so! You are a coward to make love to me! If her love was unworthy, what is yours? Is it for you to cast a stone at her? See! Read your letters! (Producing a packet.) Letters to me--love-letters! Letters to a woman you didn't respect in her grief and persecuted in her loneliness--a woman who would have none of you--who tells you to your face you're not a man! Your love's an insult! take the thing away! [ (Turns off. Pause.) (SYLVESTER: Do you propose to send those to my wife?) No! but I want to make you realize you need more mercy than you show to her. These letters were written for my eye alone; to open them was to promise secrecy.

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