Monologue

She Monologue from How He Lied to Her Husband

From How He Lied to Her Husband by Bernard Shaw

female · dramatic · 1:43 min

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Do you mean to say that you propose that we should walk right bang up to Teddy and tell him we're going away together? (HE: Yes. What can be simpler?) And do you think for a moment he'd stand it, like that half-baked clergyman in the play? He'd just kill you. HE (coming to a sudden stop and speaking with considerable confidence) You don't understand these things, my darling, how could you? In one respect I am unlike the poet in the play. I have followed the Greek ideal and not neglected the culture of my body. Your husband would make a tolerable second-rate heavy weight if he were in training and ten years younger. As it is, he could, if strung up to a great effort by a burst of passion, give a good account of himself for perhaps fifteen seconds. But I am active enough to keep out of his reach for fifteen seconds; and after that I should be simply all over him. SHE (rising and coming to him in consternation) What do you mean by all over him? HE (gently) Don't ask me, dearest. At all events, I swear to you that you need not be anxious about me.

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30s · fear · betrayal · identity · power · love

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