Monologue

She Monologue from How He Lied to Her Husband

From How He Lied to Her Husband by Bernard Shaw

female · defiant · 1:54 min

The fact is, Teddy's got nothing but relatives. He has eight sisters and six half-sisters, and ever so many brothers--but I don't mind his brothers. Now if you only knew the least little thing about the world, Henry, you'd know that in a large family, though the sisters quarrel with one another like mad all the time, yet let one of the brothers marry, and they all turn on their unfortunate sister-in-law and devote the rest of their lives with perfect unanimity to persuading him that his wife is unworthy of him. They can do it to her very face without her knowing it, because there are always a lot of stupid low family jokes that nobody understands but themselves. Half the time you can't tell what they're talking about: it just drives you wild. There ought to be a law against a man's sister ever entering his house after he's married. I'm as certain as that I'm sitting here that Georgina stole those poems out of my workbox. (HE: She will not understand them, I think.) Oh, won't she! She'll understand them only too well. She'll understand more harm than ever was in them: nasty vulgar-minded cat! HE (going to her) Oh don't, don't think of people in that way. Don't think of her at all. (He takes her hand and sits down on the carpet at her feet). Aurora: do you remember the evening when I sat here at your feet and read you those poems for the first time?

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