Rohini Monologue from The King of the Dark Chamber

From The King of the Dark Chamber by Rabindranath Tagore

female · defiant · 47 sec

Do you think her cleverer than any of us? (SUDARSHANA: Oh no, but she would recognise him instantly.) I cannot believe that she would. She merely pretends to know him. There is none to test her knowledge if she professes to know the King. If we were as shameless as she is, it would not have been difficult for us to boast about our acquaintance with the King. (SUDARSHANA: But no, she never boasts.) It is pure affectation, the whole of it: which often goes a longer way than open boasting. She is up to all manner of tricks: that is why we could never like her.

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