human
Why?
gpt
Perhaps it's the intuition of the male,
human
A man's intuition is not dependable. You see, a woman gets her intuition first and fits her facts to it, while a man takes a fact and then has an intuitive burst of inspiration as a result. The woman puts her facts last and so is not thrown out when they're wrong, as they usually are. But the man--I think, Professor Kennedy, that you have some facts about Enid stored away and that that's why you put a double meaning in my remark. Am I right?
gpt
I surrender, Miss Loring. You are right.
human
What is the little fact? Perhaps I can help you.
gpt
Miss Faye and Lawrence Millard seem to be old friends.
human
Oh! Maybe you wonder at the contents of the sealed testimony in the case of Millard VS. Millard?
gpt
Do you want to know what I think?
human
Please.
gpt
Well, I've worked with Stella nearly a year. It's my opinion she divorced Millard because he asked her to do so.
human
No, no! I balked at that, interrupting.
gpt
He could have obtained the divorce himself if he had wanted it. Stella Lamar and Manton--
human
That's talk! she rejoined, with a show of feeling.
gpt
That's the thing I hate about pictures. It's always talk, talk, talk! I'm not saying Stella and old Papa Lloyd, as we used to call him, never were mixed up with each other, but it's one thing to repeat a bit of gossip and quite another thing to prove it. I'm not one to help give currency to any rumor of immoral relationship until I'm pretty dog-gone sure it's true.
human
You think Miss Lamar wasn't as bad as painted?
gpt
I'm sure of it, Mr. Kennedy. I've known Stella and I've known others of her type. Fundamentally they're the kindest, truest, biggest-hearted people on earth. When Stella and I shared a dressing room I often caught her giving away this or that--frequently things she needed herself. I've known her to draw against her salary to lend money to some actor or actress whom she well knew would never repay her. Stella's biggest fault was an overbalancing quality of sympathy. If she ever did get mixed up with anyone you may bet it was because that person played upon her feelings.
human
Have you any theory as to who killed her?
gpt
No!