human
And now, she went on fearfully,
gpt
I'm afraid, afraid of that woman. And I'm going to do a cowardly thing. I'm afraid of the test, afraid of myself. Jimmie, I'm going to ask you to promise something. I know it's going back on my own heart promise, but I can't help it--I can't help it!
human
Let's drive back, and I'll choke Jethniah's wife to death with the soap. She's to blame for all this.
gpt
But will you promise, Jimmie?
human
Of course, I'll promise! What is it, dear?
gpt
Will you promise me never to have anything to do with that woman?
human
Jean Bradley? Why, yes, sure I promise, if you wish it. That's easy, and all settled. We'll probably never see her again anyway. But I do wish you had put in something about Jethniah's wife. If ever a woman deserved choking, and with soap--I insist on the soap, it is certainly that woman.
gpt
I'm afraid, she confessed, shrinking in closer to him so that she seemed so little and so forlorn that Jimmie instinctively put his hand on hers to stop her,
human
she pleaded,
gpt
Augusta, to your knowledge I'm a good many kinds of a fool. But let me tell you something that I know about you, and me. If I should ever be that particular kind of fool, do you know what would happen? Well, in the first place, you'd know it before I knew it myself. And before I'd get around to know it, you'd snap me loose and send me spinning so fast that I'd never know just what happened.
human
Oh, Jimmie, don't let me think of it! I could not bear it, and live.
gpt
There are other, more immediate, things to be thought of. Our patient Donahue is thinking hard on some of them this minute. In the first place, he is wondering if he is expected to work nights.
human
I'm sorry, Donahue, she apologized cheerfully.
gpt
I know you are hungry and so is Jimmie. And it's all my fault. But really we can't stop right here. This is just the middle of a field. We'll just go on up to the edge of that little woods. And there we'll stop all day tomorrow, if you like, and think about things.