3 Best The Open Door Monologues

The Open Door (Lady Torminster)

Category: Play Role: Lady Torminster From: The Open Door

Lady Torminster says

If we women had had a hand in the making of the language, how many words there would be to express our feelings towards the men we are fond of! Of course I love Jack. I’m cruel to him sometimes; and there comes a look into his eyes–he has dog’s eyes, you know–a faithful Newfoundland–I am certain that men don’t realise what marriage means to a woman! Dear funeral, am I not a good wife–shall I not remain a good wife, till the end of the chapter? Because there isn’t only Jack–there are Jack’s children. And isn’t it wonderful, when you think of it–here are we two, Jack’s friend and his wife, alone on a desert island–and we have confessed our love for each other, and we are able to discuss it as calmly as though it were rheumatism!

The Open Door (Lady Torminster)

Category: Play Role: Lady Torminster From: The Open Door

Lady Torminster says

I knew you were going to-morrow. Oh, never mind how! I knew. And I suspected you would be sitting up here to-night. So I came down, hoping to find you. I wanted this talk with you. And I extracted your confession–as though it had been a tooth. Why? Because it will be something to think of, in the dull days ahead. Because I knew that you loved me, and wanted to be told. Because your life lies before you, and mine is ended. Because I love you, and insisted that you should know. You leave me now, and I have no illusions. Paolo and Francesca are merely a poet’s dream. You will marry–of course you will marry–but this moment, at least, has been mine. Ah, the future! Strange little syllables that hide so much! I can see you, introducing your wife to me, a little shyly–I can see myself, shaking hands with her–and with you…. My boy is seven already–time travels fast…. But it’s good to know that you really have loved me, all these years….And I have loved you–ah, yes, I have loved you!… And, having said this to each other, we will not meet again–till you bring me your wife. I have loved you, and I love you, for the fine, upright, loyal creature that you are. I love you for loving Jack; and it is Jack’s great quality in my eyes that he has been able to inspire such love. And, my dear friend, let us not be ashamed, we two, but only very proud, and very happy. We shall go our ways, and do our duty; but we shall never forget this talk we have had to-night.

The Open Door (Sir Geoffrey)

Category: Play Role: Sir Geoffrey From: The Open Door

Sir Geoffrey says

What would you have me do? Go into the House? Thank you, I’ve been there. You spend your time on the Terrace or in the smoke-room till a muffin-bell rings; then you gravely walk into the lobby, where an energetic gentleman counts you as Polyphemus counted his sheep. Philanthropy! Well, I’ve tried that, but it’s not in my line. I’m quite a respectable landlord, but a fellow can’t live all himself in a great Elizabethan barrack. Town–the Season? Christian mothers invite you to inspect their daughters’ shoulders, with a view to purchase. I’m tired of golf and polo; I’m tired of bridge. So I’ll try the good sea and the open plains; sleep in a tent and watch the stars twinkle–the stars that make you afraid.