human
You have failed!
gpt
What did he say?
human
Said he was under orders--said you should go to Mr. Jefferson with your plan--said Mr. Jefferson alone could stop him. Failed? Yes, I failed!
gpt
You failed, said Burr,
human
Listen, my daughter, said Burr at length, in his eye a light that she never had known before.
gpt
You _must_ see that man again, and bring him back into our camp! We need him. Without him I cannot handle Merry, and without Merry I cannot handle Yrujo. Without them my plan is doomed. If it fails, your husband has lost fifty thousand dollars and all the moneys to which he is pledged beyond that. You and I will be bankrupt--penniless upon the streets, do you hear?--unless you bring that man back. Granted that all goes well, it means half a million dollars pledged for my future by Great Britain herself, half as much pledged by Spain, success and future honor and power for you and me--and him. He _must_ come back! That expedition must not go beyond the Mississippi. You ask me what to tell him? Ask him no longer to return to us and opportunity. _Ask him to come back to Theodosia Burr and happiness_--do you understand?
human
Sir, said his daughter,
gpt
I think--I think I do not understand!
human
You must try again, said he,