human
No--no, Tom. You sit there--I'll have this swing,
gpt
Now, Tom, she said,
human
I have given you everything to-night. I am entirely at your mercy; I want you to be as good to me as I have been to you.
gpt
But, Margaret, he protested,
human
Tom, she answered,
gpt
The man started to speak. She stopped him:
human
Now listen, Tom. He'll have that charter for the Captain's company within half an hour and will start home on the midnight train. That will give us just an hour together--all alone, Tom, undisturbed.
gpt
Tom, dear, how should we spend the first whole hour we have ever had in our lives alone together? I have read and re-read your beautiful letters, dear. Oh, I know some of them by heart. I am yours, Tom--all yours. Now, dear, he made a motion to rise,
human
There are so many things I want to say, Tom, to-night. I wonder if I can think of any of them. It is all so beautiful. Isn't it? she asked softly, and felt his answer in every nerve in his body, though his lips did not speak. It was the woman who broke the silence.
gpt
Time is slipping by, Tom. I know what's in your mind, and you know what's in mine. Where will this thing end? It can't go on this way. It must end now, to-night--this very night, Tom, dear, or we must know where we are coming out. Do you understand?
human
Yes, Margaret, replied the man. He gripped his arm about her, and continued passionately,
gpt
And I'm ready. In a long minute of ecstasy they were dumb. He went on,
human
You have good cause--lots of cause--every one knows that. But I--I'll make it somehow--Oh, I can make it. He set his teeth fiercely, and repeated,
gpt
Oh, I'll make it, Margaret.