Monologue

Sybil Monologue from The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

From The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith by Arthur Wing Pinero

46 sec

The word slips out. I swear to you that he and I can never be more to each other than companion figures in a masquerade. The same roof may cover us; but between two wings of a house, as you may know, there often stretches a wide desert. I despise him; he hates me. Only--I did love him once . . . I don't want to see him utterly thrown away--wasted . . . I don't quite want to see that . . .

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