Mrs Ben Dixon Monologue from The Prude's Progress: A Comedy in Three Acts

From The Prude's Progress: A Comedy in Three Acts by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

female · sarcastic · 53 sec

Ben, you're either a fool or you're pretending to be one. What do you think induced that girl to accept him? (MR. BEN DIXON: The usual thing, I suppose, my dear. Love that comes to----) Fiddlesticks! Girls of nineteen don't marry men of fifty-five for love. (MR. BEN DIXON: Forty-three, my dear. He told me so himself.) Forty-three, and the rest. I'm not a chicken, and he wore his own beard when he played Macbeth to my child's head. He's fifty-five if he's a day, and she's accepted him because they were both starving--small blame to her for it. What we've got to do is to lift them out of this poverty and give them a start, and then there'll be no need for the poor girl to sacrifice herself.

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