human
It is strange that we should have met Annabel, she said.
gpt
I am afraid your broken dinner engagement will not be so easy to explain.
human
I am going, he said,
gpt
Loneliness, she said,
human
Sir John is an ass!
gpt
He is Annabel's husband,
human
Annabel! He looked at her thoughtfully.
gpt
It is rather odd, he said,
human
Many other people, she remarked,
gpt
Again, he said,
human
I am going to be impertinent. I never met your sister in Paris, but I heard about her more than once. She is not in the least like the descriptions of her.
gpt
She has changed a good deal,
human
There is some mystery about you both, he exclaimed, with sudden earnestness.
gpt
No, don't interrupt me. Why may I not be your friend? Somehow or other I feel that you have been driven into a false position. You represent to me an enigma, the solution of which has become the one desire of my life. I want to give you warning that I have set myself to solve it. To-morrow I am going to Paris.
human
To Paris! But why? What do you hope to discover there?
gpt
I do not know, he answered,
human
David Courtlaw! she repeated.
gpt
What has he to do with it?
human
He was your sister's master--her friend. A few days ago I saw him leave your house. He was like a man beside himself. He began to tell me something--and stopped. I am going to ask him to finish it.
gpt
I forbid it!
human
I will tell you as much as this, she continued.
gpt
There is a secret. I admit it. Set yourself to find it out, if you will--but if you do, never dare to call yourself my friend again.
human
It is for your good--your good only I am thinking,
gpt
Then let me be the judge of what is best,