human
Is this it? he asked.
gpt
A lot I care about that--not to go into the Simpson firm! You don't understand your power. The things that would have made me suffer--well, if you had let prison break you, if you had given your love to that crooked politician who came down to bribe me on your behalf----Why, when you fell at my feet in the reception room at Auburn I suffered more than in all my life before or since, because I love you.
human
Stop! said Lydia.
gpt
Don't dare say that to me!
human
I love you, he said.
gpt
You don't have to go about looking for things like this, and he flicked the letter contemptuously into the fire.
human
You make me suffer just by existing.
gpt
I won't listen to you!
human
Of course you'll listen to me, he answered, standing between her and the door.
gpt
There isn't one thing you've done since I first saw you that has given me the slightest pleasure or peace or happiness--nothing but unrest and pain. When you're hard and bitter I suffer, and when you're gentle and kind----
human
When have you ever seen me gentle and kind?
gpt
Oh, I know how wonderfully you could give yourself to a man if you loved him.
human
Don't say such things! she said, actually shuddering.
gpt
It sickens me! Don't even think them!
human
Think! Good God, the things I think!
gpt
Don't even think of me at all except as your relentless enemy. If it were true what you just said now, that you love me----
human
It is true.
gpt
I hope it is. It gives me more power to hurt you. It must make it worse for you to know how I hate, how I despise you, everything about you; your using your looks and your fine figure to hypnotize simple people like Eleanor and Miss Bennett and poor Evans; the vanity that makes you hate me for being free of your charms; and all the petty, underhanded things you did in the trial; all your sentimental buncombe with the poor little Wooley girl; and your twisting the law--the law that you are supposed to uphold--in order to get that bracelet before the jury; your mouthing and your cheap arts with the jury; and most of all your coming to Auburn to feast your eyes on my humiliation. Oh, if I could forgive all the rest I could never forgive you that!
human
I'm not particularly eager that you should forgive me,