human
Strange to say, he calmed down, and burying his face in his hands, he wept, a broken-spirited man.
gpt
You think it changed him?
human
He was from that moment another man. A more hopeless and afflicted looking man you could not easily find. I feared insanity before the curse worked its worst upon him. I do not know what the effect of the fatal thirst will finally be, but if he does not lose his reason entirely, he will kill himself. Poor boy, poor boy!
gpt
It seems to me a wonderful case, and impossible to understand. Has he been under any treatment?
human
He spent some time with two eminent physicians who were interested in his case, but they failed to help him in any way, and did not seem to understand the affliction at all. He is away now. It unfits him sadly for any occupation, and his easy means of living permits him too much time to brood over his condition.
gpt
He has ceased expecting any hope from Marie, then?
human
He no longer speaks of her. He does not even mention your name now. He is dead to his old life, old in his youth, and with no desire in life but to be cured of his insatiable thirst. That is the only hope left to him.