Miss Woodward Monologue from The Tyranny of Tears: A Comedy in Four Acts

From The Tyranny of Tears: A Comedy in Four Acts by C. Haddon (Charles Haddon) Chambers

female · comedic · 59 sec

What do you wish to know? (GUNNING: All about you. May I?) Will you go away and leave me to work if I tell you? (GUNNING: Yes.) (Putting down her pen, and resting her cheek on her hand.) I'm the thirteenth daughter of a parson. Why my parents had thirteen daughters, I don't know; but I suppose it was because they are very poor. We were all given the names of flowers--Rose, Lily, Tulip, Mignonette--I can't remember them all--but Hyacinth fell to my lot. Why we were called after flowers, I don't know; but I suppose it was because we are none of us the least like flowers. My eldest sister married my father's curate. I don't know why, but I suppose it was because she came first and is the plainest in the family.

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