human
Don't you feel a guilty monster?
gpt
I feel as if I were slinking off after a murder! he exclaimed ruefully.
human
I wonder if we oughtn't to go back and try again to soothe the child.
gpt
You _do_ make a lovely allegory! she exclaimed.
human
This sense of guilt, this disposition to go back--this attitude of apology--it is speaking, inimitable!
gpt
But meanwhile that wretched child is shrieking itself into a fit!
human
Whenever you open your mouth, out falls a symbol, exclaimed Hadria.
gpt
Be calm; Hannah will soon comfort her, and it is truer kindness not to remind her again of her grievance, poor little soul. But we will go back if you like (you are indeed a true woman!), and you can say you are sorry you made so free with your own possessions, and you wish you had done your duty better, and are eager to return and let Her Majesty hold you captive. Your prototype always does, you know, and she is nearly always pardoned, on condition that she never does anything of that kind again.