human
What are you going to do, Tom?
gpt
What am I going to do? queried Tom.
human
I don't know that I am going to do anything. What do you mean, Alice?
gpt
I mean that you must make your choice.
human
Choice? What choice?
gpt
I should not have met you this afternoon, replied Alice Lister quietly,
human
What has come over you, Alice? What do you mean? Surely, he went on,
gpt
Tom, went on the girl quietly,
human
You're jealous of Polly Powell,
gpt
I'm jealous of your good name, Tom, jealous of evil influence.
human
Evil influence? What evil influence?
gpt
Going to the Thorn and Thistle has done you a great deal of harm; it has caused you to give up your Young Men's Class, and--and--but there, I needn't talk any more about it. You understand what I mean. It must be either one or the other, Tom.
human
You mean that I must either give up you or Polly Powell?
gpt
It means more than that, replied the girl,
human
As though any lad's a teetotaler in these days, laughed the young fellow.
gpt
Come now, Alice, you are not so narrow-minded as that. I am nearly twenty-three now, and if I want a glass of beer surely I can have it. You don't mean to say that everybody but teetotalers are going to the bad.
human
You know very well what I mean, Tom. You are not the kind of young man you were, and either you give up these things or we part company.
gpt
Nay, Alice, doan't be narrow-minded. I suppose, he added bitterly,