human
It must make a difference, she said.
gpt
You have utterly misunderstood me, or you would never have brought me here.
human
Don't be too sure of that, he returned.
gpt
It may be that you can deceive yourself more easily than you can deceive me. Or again, it may be that I have come to the end of my patience and have decided to take by storm what cannot be won by waiting.
human
And you call that--love! she said, with a scorn that she had never before turned against him.
gpt
You dare to call that--love!
human
Call it what you will! he flashed back.
gpt
It is something that can crush your cold virtue into atoms, something that can turn you from a marble saint into a living woman of flesh and blood. For your sake I've tried--I've agonised--to reach your level. And I've failed because I can't breathe there. To-night you shall come down from your heights to mine. You who have never lived yet shall know life--as I know it--to-night!