Wedgecroft Monologue from Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts

From Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Harley Granville-Barker

male · defiant · 1:16 min

Well, if she'd told me the truth!... No, anyhow I couldn't. I'm sure there was no excuse. One can't run these risks. (FARRANT: Quite right, quite right.) There are men who do on one pretext or another. (FARRANT: Are there really?) Oh yes, men well known... in other directions. I could give you four addresses... but of course I wasn't going to give her one. Though there again... if she'd told me the whole truth!... My God, women are such fools! And they prefer quackery... look at the decent doctors they simply turn into charlatans. Though, there again, that all comes of letting a trade work mysteriously under the thumb of a benighted oligarchy... which is beside the question. But one day I'll make you sit up on the subject of the Medical Council, Horsham. HORSHAM assumes an impenetrable air of statesmanship.

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