Mrs Somerton 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

female · comedic · 1:17 min

Don't interrupt me. I had been in Paris about three weeks, when one evening on my return from the opera, I found a note on my dressing table, containing these words--"I have seen you, and to see you is to love you. I am young, tolerably handsome, and sufficiently rich, yet as I cannot presume to present myself to you until you permit me to do so, I shall venture to remind you from time to time that I am near you." (PEGGY: Well I'm sure, Mr. Impudence; and what was the fellow's name?) There was no name, but merely the initials C. R. (PEGGY. C. R: Samuel something or other I dare say--but he gave his address?) No; simply the words "Post Office, to be left till called for." Of course, I took no notice of it whatever, and had forgotten the circumstance altogether, when a month afterwards to the very day--the very hour--I was then at Florence, I received a second communication, couched in precisely the same words, and again subsequently at Venice, Naples, and Milan.

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