Mary monologue (Act 4) — Captain Mary Miller : $b A drama

Good-morning, sir. (_Exit_ MR. ROMBERG, R.) Indeed! what kind of a woman does he take me to be! Telling _me_ about marrying another man so as to have a captain! I will show him that I can be master of my own boat. _I_ go into a lager-beer saloon! As Mary Gandy I would not have done it; and as Mary Miller I certainly shall not. _I_ give up the boat! My William’s boat? Never! Unless they put me on shore by force. _Why_ cannot _I_ get a license? _I’ll try!_ and then, if worst comes to worst, I must make my way somehow back home again. If I could only hear from mother! (_Sits down at the table—arranges papers._)