human
How is it, Ingeborg? It appears to me you laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
gpt
Yes: a soap-bubble has burst for me, and glitters, maybe, for another.
human
You know I seldom understand the sentimental enigmas: can you not interpret your words?
gpt
Yes: to-day an illusion has vanished, that had lasted for six years.
human
For six years? said her cousin, with an inquiring or sympathizing look.
gpt
So it began when you were hardly sixteen years.
human
Now do you believe, that when I was in my sixteenth year I saw an ideal of a man, and was enamoured of him, and to-day I hear that he is married.
gpt
No, I don't know as I believe just that, answered the cousin, dropping her eyes;
human
But it was something more than a vision; it was a letter--a love-letter.