Sophy Monologue from The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts

From The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

female · defiant · 50 sec

(Summoning all her dignity.) Oh, I'll be perfectly straight with you--until he fully understood that, whatever my station in life may be now, I have risen from rather--well, I may say very small beginnings. (POLLITT: What matters that?) Oh, but I beg your pardon--it does. (Relaxing.) I am sure I can depend on you not to give me away all over the place? (POLLITT: Miss Fullgarney--!) (After a cautious glance round.) You know, Mr. Valma, I was always a self-willed, independent sort of a girl--a handful, they used to call me; and when father died I determined to have done with my step-mother, and to come to London at any price. I was seventeen then.

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