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

I'd like you to be frank with me. (RONNY: You don't want my love. She's sweet and kind and tender.) I think she might make you very happy. (RONNY: Who knows?) It seems a pity that you should waste your life for nothing. I'm afraid you'll think me a heartless flirt. I'm not that. At the time I feel all I say. But... I don't quite understand myself. I take a violent fancy to someone, and I lose my head, but somehow it doesn't last. I... I suppose I'm not capable of any enduring passion. There are people like that, aren't there? It goes just as suddenly as it comes. And when it goes--well, it's gone for ever. I can't understand then what on earth I saw in the man who made my heart go pit-a-pat. I'm dreadfully sorry I caused you so much pain. You took it so much more seriously than I expected. And afterwards I didn't know what to do. You must--you must try to forgive me. (There is a long pause.)

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

Rehearse Violet's monologue