Lulu monologue (Act 2) — Miss Lulu Bett : $b an American comedy of manners

Can’t you understand anything? I’ve lived here all my life--on your money. I’ve not been strong enough to work they say--well, but I’ve been strong enough to be a hired girl in your house--and I’ve been glad to pay for my keep.... But there wasn’t a thing about it that I liked. Nothing about being here that I liked.... Well, then I got a little something, same as other folks. I thought I was married and I went off on the train and he bought me things and I saw different towns. And then it was all a mistake. I didn’t have any of it. I came back here and went into your kitchen again--I don’t know why I came back. I suppose it’s because I’m most thirty-four and new things ain’t so easy any more--but what have I got or what’ll I ever have? And now you want to put on to me having folks look at me and think he run off and left me and having them all wonder. I can’t stand it. I can’t stand it. I can’t....