Monologue

Thekla Monologue from The Creditor

From The Creditor by August Strindberg

female · contemplative · 42 sec

Quite the contrary. Why, he's just been expressing himself with the utmost sympathy with regard to you. He's never entertained malice against you—why, he doesn't know you at all—and, so far as I'm concerned, I always entertained the silent hope that I would live to see the time in which you would approach each other as friends—or at least meet each other in my presence, shake hands, and part. Your words come straight from your heart; you have understood me, Gustav—thanks.

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