Sam monologue (Act 6) — Betsey Bobbett: A Drama

And I don’t want to hear such wimmen talk about infamy. For in what respect are they better than these other infamous wimmen we all despise? Do you ’spose their standin’ up in front of a minister and tellin’ a few lies, such as I promise to love a man I hate, and honor a man I despise, and obey a man I calculate to make toe the mark? Do you ’spose these few lies make ’em any purer in the sight of God? Marriage is like baptism, as I have said mor’n a hundred times. You have got to have the inward grace and the outward form to make it lawful and right. What good does the water do if your soul hain’t baptized with the love of God? It hain’t no better than fallin’ into the creek.