Wangel Monologue from The Lady from the Sea

From The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 46 sec

And what do you think should be done? (Arnholm: Dear Wangel, I think you, as a doctor, must know that better than I.) Oh! if you only knew how difficult it is for a doctor to judge rightly about a patient who is so dear to him! Besides, this is no ordinary illness. No ordinary doctor and no ordinary medicines can help her. (Arnholm: How is she today?) I was upstairs with her just now, and then she seemed to me quite calm; but behind all her moods something lies hidden which it is impossible for me to fathom; and then she is so changeable, so capricious--she varies so suddenly.

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