human
With your uncle Ian!
gpt
Yes. He is to show me art-life, and all that.
human
Yes, Lady Dargan?
gpt
I asked you once to come to me if you ever needed a friend. I do not wait for that. I ask you not to go to your uncle.
human
Why?
gpt
Because there will be trouble. I can see it. You may trust a woman's instinct; and I know that man!
human
I fancy I must keep my promise.
gpt
What is the book you are reading?
human
It is called Affairs of Some Consequence in the Reign of Charles I. In reading it I seemed to feel that it was incorrect, and my mind kept wandering away into patches of things--incidents, scenes, bits of talk --as I fancied they really were, not apocryphal or 'edited' as here.
gpt
I say, said Cluny,
human
For instance, Gaston continued,
gpt
He read it.
human
Now here is the scene as I picture it.
gpt
Where did you read those things?
human
I do not know that I ever read them.
gpt
Did your father tell you them?
human
I do not remember so, though he may have.
gpt
Did you ever see this box?
human
Never before.
gpt
You do not know what is in it?
human
Not in the least.
gpt
And you have never seen this key?
human
Not to my knowledge.
gpt
It is very strange. He opened the box.
human
Now, here are private papers of Sir Gaston Belward, more than two hundred years old, found almost fifty years ago by myself in the office of our family solicitor. Listen.