human
You're in this, too, Colonel Grayle, he said.
gpt
Once more we need concern ourselves only with the future. I should like to hear your views.
human
It's her happiness we're considering, he agreed slowly, with his eyes on O'Rane's waist.
gpt
I--well, it's for her to say; I obviously can't tell you what will make her happiest, she's the only person who can do that. You've not put forward any case for yourself, I musn't put forward any for myself. She must tell us both whether she's been happy enough these last months to want to go on.... I may say--you haven't attacked me, so perhaps I don't need to defend myself--I may say that, when a woman's unhappily married, I don't regard her as being under any obligation to her husband; she's free to start her life again; and any man is free to share that life, if she sees fit. That--that's my _theory_, in case you feel there's any question of _rights_ involved.
human
Yes. But we agreed to leave the past alone, he said.
gpt
I've knocked about a good bit the last thirty years and I can assure you that I never want to be put on my trial for _any_thing. Let's stick to the future. Do you wish--my wife to go through the Divorce Court?