human
What a fool I am! I ought simply to have put my arm around her waist, and kissed her.
gpt
Aren't you asleep?
human
No.
gpt
Shall I tell you what happened?
human
Well.
gpt
No, I'd better not tell you.... Yes, I will too. Move your legs over a little.
human
Could you imagine that the young lady of the house gave me a rendezvous?
gpt
What is that you say?
human
Well, now listen.
gpt
But how? When? It can't be!
human
See here: while you were making out your accounts in _préférence_, she told me that she would this night be sitting at the window, and that it was possible to get in at that window. Now, this is what it means to be a practical man: while you were there reckoning up with the old woman, I was arranging this little affair. You yourself heard her say right out in your presence, that she was going to sit at the window to-night, and look at the pond.
gpt
Yes, but she said that without any meaning in it.
human
I am not so sure whether she said it purposely or otherwise. Maybe she did not wish to come at it all at once, only it looked like that. But a wretched piece of work came out of it. Like a perfect fool I spoilt the whole thing,
gpt
Well, what is it? Where have you been?
human
I spoilt it myself; I ought to have been bolder. She screamed, and ran away from the window.
gpt
Then she screamed and ran away?
human
Yes, but now it's time to go to sleep.