Rosmer Monologue from Rosmersholm

From Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 59 sec

Do anything that you think right and proper. You have full freedom of action.--But what do you say to it all, Rebecca? Ah, I do not think I have ever stood so much in need of you as I do to-day. (Rebecca: Surely both you and I have been prepared for what would happen some day.) No, no--not for this. (Rebecca: Not for this?) It is true that I used to think that sooner or later our beautiful pure friendship would come to be attacked by calumny and suspicion--not on Kroll's part, for I never would have believed such a thing of him--but on the part of the coarse-minded and ignoble-eyed crowd. Yes, indeed; I had good reason enough for so jealously drawing a veil of concealment over our compact. It was a dangerous secret.

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