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Sir Robert Chiltern Monologue from An Ideal Husband

From An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

male · dramatic · 1:25 min

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Arthur cannot bring Mabel the love that she deserves. (LORD GORING: What reason have you for saying that?) (After a pause.) Do you really require me to tell you? (LORD GORING: Certainly I do.) As you choose. When I called on you yesterday evening I found Mrs. Cheveley concealed in your rooms. It was between ten and eleven o’clock at night. I do not wish to say anything more. Your relations with Mrs. Cheveley have, as I said to you last night, nothing whatsoever to do with me. I know you were engaged to be married to her once. The fascination she exercised over you then seems to have returned. You spoke to me last night of her as of a woman pure and stainless, a woman whom you respected and honoured. That may be so. But I cannot give my sister’s life into your hands. It would be wrong of me. It would be unjust, infamously unjust to her.

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Sir Robert Chiltern confronts a friend about a troubling relationship with Mrs. Cheveley, expressing his deep concerns for his sister's future and the implications of her past.

30s · fear · betrayal · family · honor · trust

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