human
I knew you would prove yourself a true woman,
gpt
Oh, Lord! said Lady Jim, sipping the wine, and wondered what he would say could he see into her mind.
human
Give me some of that vol-au-vent, Lionel. It is really very good.
gpt
You can eat?
human
Do you require me to tell you that? she asked lightly.
gpt
I have enjoyed every course. Eat--I should think so. You don't want me to faint, as Hilda has been doing.
human
But your feelings
gpt
Oh, they are well under control, now. And after all --Leah paused with a fork half-way to her mouth--
human
I really cannot understand your nature.
gpt
Same here. I never know what I shall do under given circumstances, save keep my poor wits about me. We're strange beasts, Lionel--strange beasts.
human
You make yourself out to be worse than you are, Lady James.
gpt
Don't you make any such mistake. I never seek cheap praise by crying down my virtues. Were you my father-confessor--which you are not--and I religious--which I have no inclination to be--I should shock you into Hilda's state. Poor little thing, what an undisciplined mind she has, and how she does work for those tyrants the emotions! I think you had better send for Joan: she is used to women who run wild.
human
You put things unpleasantly,
gpt
And truthfully. Answer my question, please.
human
Joan arrives to-morrow with her mother.
gpt
I am glad, Leah assured him fervently.
human
Too many female cooks can never spoil the funeral broth. The more women you have in a mourning house the better. We like to weep in company and to talk obituary notices. That is, other women do. I fancy I have a dash of the man in me, and this sort of undertaker rejoicing gives me the creeps.