human
Corinna, what's the use?
gpt
I don't understand you.
human
What's the use of trying to evade something that's got to be faced in the end.
gpt
What's got to be faced?
human
Me.
gpt
Is that a threat?
human
No. You know, yourself, after what happened you owe me an explanation.
gpt
The explanation is obvious.
human
Then I must be very dense.
gpt
If you were the least bit sorry, I could talk to you; but to glory in it, to try to trade on it----
human
Sorry for what?
gpt
Oh, of course you have nothing to be sorry for.
human
You're talking in riddles. You know I love you.
gpt
It's a funny way you have of showing it, she said.
human
To try to humble me further!
gpt
But you ask for it, Corinna--with your high and mighty way. I told you that before.
human
I don't know what cause you have to be sore at me, he resumed when he got another opportunity.
gpt
It seems to me I'm the one----
human
Oh, you'll get over it, I suspect.
gpt
Corinna, why did you run away?
human
Because I was ashamed.
gpt
Ashamed! Of what?
human
You know very well what I mean.
gpt
I swear I do not!
human
I will hate you if you force me to say it.
gpt
I'll take my chance of that,
human
Very well. Don't you understand that a person may be carried away for the moment, and do things and say things that they bitterly regret afterwards. Of course if you have no standards of right and wrong you wouldn't understand.
gpt
Thanks for the compliment.
human
What happened that night, she went on,
gpt
Then you lied when you said you loved me?
human
I was carried away. That sort of thing isn't love.
gpt
Now I hope you understand,
human
You have a lot to learn, said Evan,
gpt
At any rate I hope I have made you see how useless it is to follow me,
human
It is useless, said Evan--
gpt
he added to himself.
human
When I get you off this confounded steamboat we'll see what we'll see.
gpt
Don't stare at me like that, said Corinna.
human
It's attracting attention.
gpt
If there was only another girl on board that I could rush! That might fetch her!