Pehr monologue — Lucky Pehr

[Drops down on a prayer stool, left.] She flees from me, as I flee from my bad thoughts! Alone, forsaken--what more is there for me in life? Naught have I learned of life save its nothingness, and no wishes are left to me but evil ones. My soul would be like an empty shell were it not filled with her! My life--Ah, what has it been? [Pall pounds on floor.] What was that?--Ghosts in the sunshine? That would be a funny sight! [Broom raps on floor.] Again! 'Tis said that one can see ghosts in broad daylight, if one peeps through a door-crack, it is even maintained that one can see oneself. _Oneself_--! If one could really do that, how easy it would be to evade one's worst faults! I'll try it. [Opens door left and places himself behind it.]