Ridgeon Monologue from The Doctor's Dilemma

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw

male · dramatic · 45 sec

But for me it would have been a very different book. (JENNIFER: But for you it would have been a longer one.) You know then that I killed him? JENNIFER (suddenly moved and softened) Oh, doctor, if you acknowledge that--if you have confessed it to yourself--if you realize what you have done, then there is forgiveness. I trusted in your strength instinctively at first; then I thought I had mistaken callousness for strength. Can you blame me? But if it was really strength--if it was only such a mistake as we all make sometimes--it will make me so happy to be friends with you again.

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