human
You're tired, Darling. Don't tell me you're not. You ought to be in bed and asleep. Let us wait till the morning, and have a nice long chat after _petit déjeuner_.
gpt
No, said Ingersoll firmly.
human
I promised Lorry I would speak tonight. He--expects it of me.
gpt
Lorry! she gasped, in a sudden fright born of the knowledge that had come to her in the gloom down there by the whispering river, when a cold-blooded trafficker in her mother's difficulties had offered to sell his secret at the price of all she held dear.
human
Lorry! How is Lorry concerned in our present troubles?
gpt
Your troubles are his, Sweetheart. Lorry loves you. True knight-errant that he is, he wants to slay the dragon that would devour you.
human
But, father dear, how could he know? How could anyone know?