human
It may be so elsewhere, but not in Brittany, persisted Yvonne, who was keen-witted enough to understand how differently she and a woman of her mother's world might view Madeleine's folly.
gpt
Here such behavior is unforgivable. A girl may not walk out with the man to whom she is engaged, far less with a stranger. I--I hardly know how to act. You cannot imagine how completely her friends and neighbors will condemn poor Madeleine if it is spread abroad that she was seen in Mr. Fosdyke's company. As for Peridot, if he knew, he would kill him!
human
Kill Rupert?
gpt
Yes.
human
Peridot may find consolation elsewhere.
gpt
Oh, please don't say such things! she said.
human
I want you, Dear, to try and look at this affair through my eyes. I know my Bretons, and Madeleine must be saved, in spite of herself. Can you persuade Mr. Fosdyke to leave Pont Aven tomorrow?
gpt
He is going: not tomorrow, perhaps, but soon.
human
Are you sure--quite sure?
gpt
He told me so himself today.
human
If I could be certain he would go, I shouldn't speak to Lorry.
gpt
How does it affect Mr. Tollemache? Is he too an admirer of Madeleine's?
human
No, of course not, she cried.
gpt
Didn't I imply that Peridot means to marry her?
human
In that event why appeal to Mr. Tollemache?
gpt
Oh, I see your difficulty now. When aroused Lorry is a very convincing person indeed. He would tell Mr. Fosdyke to 'quit,'--that is exactly what he would say,--and if Mr. Fosdyke didn't quit he'd jolly well make him--which is also what Lorry would say.
human
My difficulties, as you put it, cover a larger area, she said, with a bitterness that had its pathetic side.
gpt
Don't forget, Yvonne, that I am debarred from sharing your confidence. Dare I ask, for instance, if at some future date you will probably become Mrs. Laurence Tollemache?
human
I don't know,
gpt
The events of the last week have taught me the un-wisdom of thinking that we can forecast the future; but I can say now, with the utmost candor, that I will never leave my father.