human
That will do.
gpt
What is it all for, master?
human
I am here to ask questions, not to answer them. Since your arrest, have you been examined as I have examined you?
gpt
No, master.
human
Has any examination whatever been made of you by doctors or gaolers or lawyers?
gpt
None at all.
human
How long had you known the girl?
gpt
Ever since she came into the neighbourhood.
human
Were you not acquainted with her before?
gpt
No.
human
From what part of the country did she come?
gpt
I can't say.
human
Not knowing?
gpt
Not knowing.
human
But being intimate with her, you could scarcely avoid asking her the question.
gpt
I did ask her, and I was curious to find out. She would not satisfy me; and when I pressed her, she said the other one--Pauline--had made her promise not to tell.
human
You don't know, then, where she was born?
gpt
No.
human
Her refusal to tell you--was it lightly or seriously uttered?
gpt
Seriously.
human
As though there was a secret in her life she wished to conceal?
gpt
I never thought of it in that way, but I can see now it must have been so.
human
Something discreditable, then?
gpt
Most likely. Master, you go deeper than I do.
human
What relationship existed between Pauline and Madeline?
gpt
Some said they were sisters, but there was a big difference in their ages. Others said that Pauline was her mother, but I don't believe it, for they never spoke together in that way. Master, I don't know what to say about it; it used to puzzle me; but it was no business of mine.
human
Did you never hear Pauline address Madeline as her child?
gpt
Never.
human
They addressed each other by their Christian names?
gpt
Yes.
human
Did they resemble each other in feature?
gpt
There was something of a likeness between them.
human
Why did Pauline leave the girl?
gpt
No one knew.
human
That is all you can tell me?
gpt
That is all.
human
Do you value your liberty?
gpt
Yes, master,
human
Let no person know what has passed between us, and do not repeat one word I have said to you.
gpt
I understand; you may depend upon me. But master, will you not tell me something more? Am I to be set free or not?
human
You are to be tried; what is brought against you at your trial will establish either your innocence or your guilt.
gpt
Well, Gautran? said the gaoler, but Gautran, wrapped in contemplation of the door through which the Advocate had taken his departure, paid no attention to him.
human
Do you hear me?
gpt
What now?
human
Is the great lawyer going to defend you?
gpt
You want to know too much,