human
When I was much younger than I am now, she replied,
gpt
I often used to try to piece together what, even then, seemed like the broken fragments of a number of dreams all jumbled up together, but I never could make anything of them. Nowadays, my mind seldom travels back so far. Why, indeed, should it? I suppose everything has been told me which it is good for me to know, and assuming that to be so, why should I trouble further?
human
Nothing has been told you yet,
gpt
Then something remains to be told, she said with a little break in her voice--
human
My dear, neither my sister nor I have any more knowledge of your parents than you yourself have.
gpt
Oh!--Can that be true? And yet you are my uncle and aunt! How, then?
human
Ah, he said, with an infinite pathos in his voice,
gpt
Here he pressed her hand a little harder.
human
My darling child--for so I may surely call you--it seems a cruel thing to be compelled to say, but we are not your uncle and aunt--I and my sister. In point of fact, we are no relatives at all.