Rolf Monologue from The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy)

From The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy) by John Galsworthy

male · defiant · 55 sec

Sins of the fathers. (JILL: Unto the third and fourth generations. What sin has my father committed?) None, in a way; only, I've often told you I don't see why you should treat us as outsiders. We don't like it. (JILL: Well, you shouldn't be, then; I mean, he shouldn't be.) Father's just as human as your father; he's wrapped up in us, and all his "getting on" is for us. Would you like to be treated as your mother treated Chloe? Your mother's set the stroke for the other big-wigs about here; nobody calls on Chloe. And why not? Why not? I think it's contemptible to bar people just because they're new, as you call it, and have to make their position instead of having it left them.

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