human
So it's really you, Miss Chase?
gpt
Why, Franklin, you knew me at once, but your master looks on me as a stranger!
human
Alas! Miss Chase, you and all the world must ever remain strangers to my poor master now!
gpt
What can you mean?
human
Miss Chase, where have you been? Have you heard nothing of Mr. Ellsworth's sad condition?
gpt
I was kidnapped the night before my wedding, Franklin, and the next day I was told Mr. Ellsworth had been shot and was dying. Then I was taken very ill, and knew nothing more till I returned here to-day, when I was overjoyed to learn that he was still alive!
human
Ah, Miss Chase! I do not know whether you should be glad or not. Is not this more cruel than death?
gpt
I do not understand,
human
You have spoken to him, and he does not know you--you, the dearest creature on earth to him, Miss Chase! Neither does he recognize any one else, nor remember anything. There is a bullet in his head that the doctors can not extricate, and it has destroyed his mental faculties completely. His health is good, but he has forgotten the past, and lost even the power of speech. He will never be anything, they say, but a harmless idiot.