human
Your Excellency,
gpt
Answer one question for me, Alexandr Daviditch, Laevsky began, when both he and Samoylenko were in the water up to their shoulders.
human
Suppose you had loved a woman and had been living with her for two or three years, and then left off caring for her, as one does, and began to feel that you had nothing in common with her. How would you behave in that case?
gpt
It's very simple. 'You go where you please, madam'--and that would be the end of it.
human
It's easy to say that! But if she has nowhere to go? A woman with no friends or relations, without a farthing, who can't work . . .
gpt
Well? Five hundred roubles down or an allowance of twenty-five roubles a month--and nothing more. It's very simple.
human
Even supposing you have five hundred roubles and can pay twenty-five roubles a month, the woman I am speaking of is an educated woman and proud. Could you really bring yourself to offer her money? And how would you do it?