Thekla Monologue from The Creditor

From The Creditor by August Strindberg

female · anguished · 1:07 min

Yes. Gustav. And a minute ago you loved me? Is that really so? Thekla. It is. Do you know what you are, then? You despise me? No, I pity you. It's a characteristic—I don't say a defect, but certainly a characteristic—that is very fatal, by reason of its results. Poor Thekla! I don't know—but I almost think that I'm sorry for it, although I'm quite innocent—like you. But anyway it's perhaps all for the best that you've now got to feel what I felt then. Do you know where your husband is? I think I know now. He's in your room just here. He has heard everything, seen everything, and you know they say that he who looks upon his vampire dies.

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