Mrs Dudgeon Monologue from The Devil's Disciple

From The Devil's Disciple by Bernard Shaw

female · anguished · 58 sec

(with intensely recalcitrant resignation). It’s His will, I suppose; and I must bow to it. But I do think it hard. What call had Timothy to go to Springtown, and remind everybody that he belonged to a man that was being hanged?—and (spitefully) that deserved it, if ever a man did. (ANDERSON:. They were brothers, Mrs. Dudgeon.) Timothy never acknowledged him as his brother after we were married: he had too much respect for me to insult me with such a brother. Would such a selfish wretch as Peter have come thirty miles to see Timothy hanged, do you think? Not thirty yards, not he. However, I must bear my cross as best I may: least said is soonest mended. (ANDERSON:. Your eldest son was present at the execution, Mrs. Dudgeon.) (disagreeably surprised). Richard?

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