human
You have certainly atoned a hundred times over, he said gently,
gpt
No more insane than I am now--simply desperate with weariness and failure. And I should have seen; I did see. I just--didn't care. I was busy trying on a box of new frocks from a French dressmaker, frocks of silk and lace--of silk and lace, Jordan King, while she hadn't clothes enough to keep her warm! And I couldn't spare the time to look at the girl's book! Well, I learned what it was to have people turn me from their doors--I, with plenty of money at my command, no matter how I elected to dress cheaply and go to cheap boarding places, and--insist on cheap beds at hospitals. Her tone was full of scorn.
human
After all, did I ever really suffer anything of what she suffered? Never, for always I knew that at any minute I could turn from a poor girl into a rich one, throw my book in the faces of those who refused to buy it, and telephone my anxious family. They did come on and try to get me away--once. I went with them--for the day. It was the day you met me. And always there was the interest of the adventure. It was an adventure, you know, a big one.
gpt
I should say it was. And when you were at the hospital--
human
Accepting expensive rooms and free medical attendance--oh, wasn't I a fraud? How I felt it I can never tell you. But I could--and did--send back Doctor Burns a draft in part payment, though I thought he would never imagine where it came from. He did, though. What do you suppose he told me last night when we were driving home?--this morning it was, of course.
gpt
I can't guess,