human
I fortunately calculated on your want of punctuality, she whispered.
gpt
But delay might be dangerous, so you must hasten back to your dormitory, and breathe not, even to your companions, that you have quitted it this night. They sleep soundly, and will not awake.
human
I forgot to watch how time passed, and I thought not it had flown so rapidly by, said Fleetwood.
gpt
I should deeply grieve were I to cause you greater risk than you have already run for Ada Garden's sake.
human
No harm is yet done, replied Nina.
gpt
I took care, thanks to my brother's knowledge of drugs, that all who were likely to interfere should sleep soundly to-night. I tried it as an experiment, that, on another occasion, I might be able to assist you in the same way. Now let us hasten back.
human
Stay, lady, for one moment, exclaimed Fleetwood, who had the natural horror of all right-minded Englishmen to the employment of any but open and fair means to obtain even the most important object, and an especial disgust at the thoughts of having drugs used to send his enemies to sleep; though, whether, in that respect he was over particular, we will not stop to discuss; at all events, being very certain that if there was a doubt, he kept on the right side of the question.
gpt
Stay, he said;
human
You act, signor, nobly, according to the dictates of your conscience, answered Nina.
gpt
Perhaps you are right, and I will follow your wishes, unless absolutely obliged to encounter force and injustice by stratagem and fraud, the only resource of the weak. It is agreed then. To-morrow I will manage that you and your companions shall be allowed to range at will over the island. I need not counsel you to make use of your time. And now we must delay no longer, or the morning light will be breaking in the sky before I have returned to my tower.