The General Monologue from Getting Married

From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

male · melancholic · 58 sec

Tricks! Ha! Well, I'll try to break myself of it; but I think she might bear with me in a little thing like that. She knows that her name sticks in my throat. Better call her your sister than try to call her L-- (he almost breaks down) L-- well, call her by her name and make a fool of myself by crying. (He sits down at the near end of the table). MRS BRIDGENORTH (going to him and rallying him) Oh come, Boxer! Really, really! We are no longer boys and girls. You cant keep up a broken heart all your life. It must be nearly twenty years since she refused you. And you know that it's not because she dislikes you, but only that she's not a marrying woman.

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