human
Why did you tell me? she asked, a little wildly.
gpt
If you hadn't told me that he was dead I should never have known. I should even have done the--the dreadful thing you want me to do.
human
Bolt thought that--Bolt said you would not know, Mrs. Panfillen spoke with sombre energy.
gpt
She wished me to allow her to take him down into the garden to meet you in the darkness----But,--but Althea, that would have been an infamous thing from me to you---- She waited a moment, and then in a very different voice, in her own usual measured and gentle accents, she added,
human
My dear, forgive me. We will never speak of this again. I was wrong, selfish, to think of subjecting you to such an ordeal. All I ask --and there came into her tone a sound of shamed pleading--