Martin Monologue from Class of '29

From Class of '29 by Orrie Lashin

male · dramatic · 1:03 min

You'll not have it so long as you let people sponge on you. (TIPPY: That's my business.) You paid Ted's share of the rent last month, (KATE looks surprised.) So this month, if Ted stays here he pays not eight but sixteen dollars. And you stick eight in the savings bank for that dog laundry. (TIPPY: Now just wait a minute. I can explain last month's...) I'll not wait for you to think up another kind lie. God knows I don't enjoy hurting Ted. He was born and raised a capitalist and an aristocrat. Now he is a cast-off wreck of the system that made him. I hate the system, not the men it makes--and least of all the weak ones it throws into the scrap heap. (Sees that all are hurt and offended.) Damn it, I'm sorry. My infernal sense of justice got the better of me. (He goes out.)

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