human
Well, he answered critically and judicially,
gpt
Jimmie.
human
Yes, dear.
gpt
I'm afraid.
human
What is it, dear?
gpt
You.
human
Me?
gpt
I'm afraid of the time when you get all well and yourself again. You'll want to wander.
human
Like Jethniah, eh? There now, what did I tell you? That's what comes of listening to him. You think that, like him, the whole male world is uncertain, coy and hard to please.
gpt
Please, Jimmie, don't head me off. I'm afraid. I suppose love makes cowards of us all. Do you remember a time when I said that I wouldn't want to keep even a kitten that didn't want to stay?
human
Oh, but that was before we were married! he explained airily.
gpt
We all talk turkey at a time like that. It's the last chance we get. And we spend the rest of our lives trying to pay the bets.
human
Jimmie.
gpt
Yes, dear?
human
Do you remember the lady I saw you talking with that day in the Square?
gpt
Sure, said Jimmie lightly,
human
Jean Bradley --They were far away now, it seemed to him, and the name meant nothing to either of them--,
gpt
And the woman in the cards, do you remember?
human
You mean the one the gypsy girl wanted to claw me about? Oh yes.
gpt
They were the same woman.
human
Same woman?
gpt
It was the same dark, handsome woman, in the cards, I saw her.
human
Saw----?
gpt
Well if you saw her, he exclaimed eagerly,
human
Please, Jimmie, don't joke. I'm trying to say something that's hard to say. You know when we stood before the priest I promised, in my heart, that if I ever thought you wanted to go away from me I would not only let you go but I would force you to be free, by going away and hiding myself.