human
Do you remember, Dearest, how you quoted that poem to me when we walked here before?
gpt
Yes, I remember quite well, said Molly.
human
I also remember what you said, but I am afraid it will make you conceited if I tell you. It is a long time to remember something that is not poetry.
gpt
Please tell me. If I ever said anything that was worth remembering that long, you should encourage me by telling it to me.
human
You said: 'A beautiful picture comes to my inward eye, and that is an old Molly with white hair sitting where you are now, still in the romantic era, still in the beechwoods; and God willing, I'll be beside you.' I have thought of those words very often, and when I wasn't certain that you really cared for me, I would say to myself that you must have cared then.
gpt
Cared for you! I can't see how I ever kept from telling you that day. It is best as it is. You were too young, but sometimes even now when I know you are mine, I tremble to think that I might have lost you by waiting.
human
There was never any real danger of that. If you had not cared, I was determined to be an old maid. And Molly gave a sigh of happiness as she nestled close to her
gpt
Orchard Home seemed too perfect to be disturbed even by the uneasy mutterings of distant war clouds. But as time passed and the chill forebodings and grim shadows of war reached the most secluded and sacred spots in the world, so they came, too, as we shall see, into the home and into the life of
human
Molly Brown of Kentucky.