Violet Monologue from Cæsar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts

From Cæsar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

female · anguished · 1:20 min

You mean that it's necessary for the country that Ronny and you should stay here? And if my heart breaks it doesn't matter. I thought I was doing so much in asking you to send him away. Don't you know that with all my heart I wanted him to stay? D'you know what I feel, Arthur? I can't think of anything else. I'm obsessed by a hungry longing for him. Till to-day I could have borne it. But now... I feel his arms about me every moment, and his kisses on my lips. You can't know the rapture and the torture and the ecstasy that consume me. (ARTHUR: Oh, my dear, do you think I don't know what love is?) I want to do the right thing, Arthur, but you mustn't ask too much of me. If I've got to treat him as a casual friend, I can't go on seeing him. I can't, Arthur, I can't! If he must stay then let me go.

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