Olivia's Internal Monologue

Internal Monologue

It was only yesterday that my commitment to my poor dead brother was engraved in my brain, and I would not have taken notice of even the most noble and handsome gentleman in Illyria. Not that I do not still mourn for my poor brother’s soul, but…
That man yesterday had a radiance I still cannot fathom to this date. When at first he was saucy at my gates, I thought of him no more than a regular messenger who has come to preach once again of Orsino’s commission.

Then Malvolio claimed he was; “Well-favored”, and Maria too spoke of him as “a fair young man, and well attended.” Perhaps it was wrong of me to let such a man through my gates, but maybe his boldness somehow aroused an interest within me.
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