Margery monologue (Act 3) — The New Woman: An Original Comedy, in Four Acts

Yes, Margery _is_ hopeless. Every scrap of hope has gone out of her heart. I heard no more. It was enough. There was the end of all the world for me. [_GERALD groans._] But it was well I heard you. I should have gone blundering along, in my old madcap way, and perhaps not found it out till I had spoilt your life. It's well to know the truth; but, Gerald dear, why didn't you tell it me instead of her? Why didn't you tell me I was no companion? I would have gone away. But to pretend you loved me, when you didn't--to let me go on thinking you were happy, when all the time you were regretting your mistake--not to tell _me,_ and to tell someone else--oh, it was cruel, when I loved you so!