Mr Percy Postlethwaite Monologue from A Desperate Game: A Comic Drama in One Act

From A Desperate Game: A Comic Drama in One Act by John Maddison Morton

male · comedic · 57 sec

What do you mean by "intense affection?" I respect her--I like her--so I did my grandmother, but it never would occur to me to fall down and worship the ground she treads upon! besides to be candid with you, I don't think she is the sort of woman to fret herself into fiddlestrings about me. (RAT: Indeed!) No; besides, I put it to you, would it not be most selfish, most unkind in me to take a mean advantage of her promise to marry me, and compel my young and lovely relative to spend the remainder of her existence with me in my second floor in Arabella Row, Pimlico. (RAT: That sentiment does you honour! Then she's at liberty to cancel her engagement to you?) Yes, from this moment she's at liberty. (Enter PEGGY running, L. U. E.)

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