Monologue

Nurse Wreford Monologue from The Mob: A Play in Four Acts

From The Mob: A Play in Four Acts by John Galsworthy

female · anguished · 1:25 min

I want to go right away at once. (KATHERINE: Leave Olive! That is the sins of the fathers with a vengeance.) I've had another letter from my son. No, Miss Katherine, while the master goes on upholdin' these murderin' outlandish creatures, I can't live in this house, not now he's coming back. (KATHERINE: But, Nurse----!) It's not like them (With an ineffable gesture) downstairs, because I'm frightened of the mob, or of the window's bein' broke again, or mind what the boys in the street say. I should think not-- no! It's my heart. I'm sore night and day thinkin' of my son, and him lying out there at night without a rag of dry clothing, and water that the bullocks won't drink, and maggots in the meat; and every day one of his friends laid out stark and cold, and one day--'imself perhaps. If anything were to 'appen to him. I'd never forgive meself--here. Ah! Miss Katherine, I wonder how you bear it--bad news comin' every day--And Sir John's face so sad--And all the time the master speaking against us, as it might be Jonah 'imself.

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