human
Youth and Beauty again, he murmured.
gpt
And she's been crying. That young fellow has said something cruel to her. Wish I could break his head for him. The pretty creature! He'll come to a bad end, that young man.
human
I am trying to make it all out quite clearly, Jack, Phillis presently began.
gpt
And it is so difficult.
human
My darling, let it remain difficult. Only tell me now, if you can, that you love me.
gpt
Yes, Jack, she said, not in the frank and childish unconsciousness of yesterday, but with the soft blush of a woman who is wooed.
human
Yes, Jack, I know now that I do love you, as you love me, because my heart beat when you kissed me, and I felt all of a sudden that you were all the world to me.
gpt
Phil, I don't deserve it. I don't deserve you.
human
So proud and so happy, she went on, after a pause.
gpt
And the girls who know all along--how do they find it out?--want every one for herself this great happiness, too. I have heard them talk and never understood till now. Poor girls! I wish they had their--their own Jack, not my Jack.
human
Poor boy! And you went about with your secret so long. Tell me how long, Jack?
gpt
Since the very first day I saw you in Carnarvon Square, Phil.
human
All that time? Did you love me on that day--not the first day of all, Jack? Oh, surely not the very first day?
gpt
Yes; not as I love you now--now that I know you so well, my Phillis--mine--but only then because you were so pretty.
human
Do men always fall in love with a girl because she is pretty?
gpt
Yes, Phil. They begin because she is pretty, and they love her more every day when she is so sweet and so good as my darling Phil.