human
Oh I have no sensational declarations to make about the army. I wouldn't even be prepared to say what I think about disarmament. It's more complex than most peace advocates seem to see. I only know that the army's not the thing for me. I can't go on in it, simply because my feeling for it is gone.
gpt
It was at the close of that day--day up at West Point--that I resigned my commission. And if you had seen me that night, Katie, I doubt if you would reproach me with 'doing it lightly.'
human
Forgive me, she said in her impetuous way.
gpt
No, I didn't know. How awful it is, Wayne, that we _don't_ know--about each other.
human
Wayne dear, I think you're right. I'm proud of you.
gpt
Oh, I'm entitled to no halo, he hastened to say.
human
It's the fellow who would do it without an income might be candidate for that.
gpt
But you _would_ do it without an income, Wayne,
human
And you'll be good to Ann? he took advantage of her mood to press, as though that were the one thing she could do for him.
gpt
You know, how much she needs you, Katie.
human
I shall certainly want to be good to Ann, she murmured.
gpt
Though I don't think she needs me much--any more.
human
Why, Katie--we all need you.
gpt
Not much, Wayne. Not now. I'm not--indispensable. Though pray why should one wish to be anything so terrifying as indispensable?
human
Will you take Worth? she asked after a little while.
gpt
He goes--with you and Ann?
human
We want him. And Katie, we want you. We're to go to Colorado and fight the water barons, he laughed.
gpt
Aren't you coming with us?
human
Not just now. I want to flit round in the East a little first. Be gay--renew my youth,
gpt
I'll fess up, Katie, he said, when warmed to it by her sympathy,