Mrs Roberts Monologue from Strife

From Strife by John Galsworthy

philosophical · 51 sec

Roberts says a working man's life is all a gamble, from the time 'e 's born to the time 'e dies. He says, M'm, that when a working man's baby is born, it's a toss-up from breath to breath whether it ever draws another, and so on all 'is life; an' when he comes to be old, it's the workhouse or the grave. He says that without a man is very near, and pinches and stints 'imself and 'is children to save, there can't be neither surplus nor security. That's why he wouldn't have no children , not though I wanted them.

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