Monologue

Relieving Officer Monologue from The Silver Box

From The Silver Box by John Galsworthy

male · anguished · 55 sec

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About ten o'clock this morning, your Worship, I found these two little girls in Blue Street, Fulham, crying outside a public-house. Asked where their home was, they said they had no home. Mother had gone away. Asked about their father. Their father had no work. Asked where they slept last night. At their aunt's. I 've made inquiries, your Worship. The wife has broken up the home and gone on the streets. The husband is out of work and living in common lodging-houses. The husband's sister has eight children of her own, and says she can't afford to keep these little girls any longer.

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The Relieving Officer recounts the heartbreaking situation of two abandoned girls found crying outside a pub, revealing the disintegration of their family and the struggles of their parents.

30s · sadness · family · isolation · poverty · abandonment

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