Sir H Monologue from The Silver Shield: An Original Comedy in Three Acts

From The Silver Shield: An Original Comedy in Three Acts by Sydney Grundy

male · contemplative · 1:05 min

((reads.)) "Tom,--I love another more than I love you. Isn't it best that we should say good-bye? I have no right to tell you I will never see you, for the fault is mine; but if I do, it will be only painful, and I leave it to your magnanimity to go away from me for ever." (returns letter to TOM) Enough, Mr. Potter. ((rises.)) There was a time when I disapproved of second marriages. They struck me as a species of inconstancy. But as one grows in years, these sentimental notions lose their force. One begins to realise the loneliness of life. You understand me? (TOM: Perfectly. The need of a companion.) More than a companion--the need of a--of a--I want a word. (TOM: Nurse is the word you want.) No, sir! It is the very word I do not want.

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