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I'll Leave It To You

What else could I be? The one girl whom...

Overview

Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act Three
Time & Place
In a wounded romantic confrontation, Bobbie lashes out at the girl who dropped him once his expected money disappeared.
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

Context

Text

What else could I be? The one girl whom I cared for and trusted has gaily thrown me over the first moment she hears that I am not going to have as much money as she thought. I'm losing my temper now, and I'm glad of it. I shall probably repent every word I say afterwards, but that won't stop me telling you exactly what I think of you. I don't suppose you've ever been in love at all—except to the extent of having signed photographs of Owen Nares and Henry Ainley stuck all over your bedroom, but when you do, I hope you get it really badly, you deserve to be absolutely utterly wretched, as wretched as you've made me, and I hope when you do marry that you get a rotten old Scotch marmalade maker who says "Hoots!" and spills haggis all down his waistcoat.

Noel Coward. I’ll Leave It To You

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