human
I'll let you go, if I must; but I'll come to you--if you live in a hovel--if you live in a cave--if you live--Oh, I know how you live!
gpt
How do I live?
human
You live in a plain little house, with just a few of the things you used to have about you; rows of books, a picture or two, and some old china. Things may be a bit shabby, but everything is beautifully neat, and there are garden flowers on the table, perhaps white lilacs!
gpt
Oh, what a romanticist! she said, through her soft laughter.
human
One would think you wrote novels instead of specifications for concrete walls. What if you come and find me living with my older sister, who sews for a living, plain sewing, at a dollar a day? And we have a long credit account at the grocery, which we can't pay? And at night our little upstairs room is full of neighbours, untidy, loud-talking, commonplace women? And the lamp smokes--
gpt
It wouldn't smoke; you would have trimmed it, he answered, quickly and with conviction.
human
But, even if it were all like that, you would still be the perfect thing you are. And I would take you away--
gpt
If you don't drive on, Mr. King, she interposed gently,
human
I like that word, he declared as he obediently set the car in motion.
gpt
Ourselves--that sounds good to me. As long as you keep me with you that way I'll try to be satisfied. One thing I'm sure of: I've something to work for now that I didn't have this morning. Oh, I know; you haven't given me a thing. But you're going to let me come to see you next spring, and that's worth everything to me. Meanwhile, I'll do my level best--for you.