human
Oh, what is it? she cried, drawing back, and blushing to a deeper colour than well-extracted blood can show;
gpt
Esther--Miss Cripps--what a fool I am! I never thought of that--I did not know--how could I tell? I am all in the dark! Is it Russel Overshute?
human
Yes, Mr. Hardenow. Everybody knows it. Every one has taken good care to run away. Even the doctors will come no more! They say it is hopeless; and they might only infect their other patients. I fear that his mother must die too! She has taken the fever in a milder form; but walk she will, while walk she can. And at her time of life it is such a chance. But I cannot stop one moment!
gpt
And at your time of life is it nothing, Esther? You seem to think of everybody but yourself. Is this fair to your own hearth and home?
human
Oh, no, there is no fear of that, she answered misunderstanding him;
gpt
I shall take good care not to go home until I am quite sure that there is no risk.
human
That is not what I mean. I mean supposing you yourself should catch it.
gpt
If I do, they will let me stay here, I am sure. But I have no fear of it. The hand that led me here will lead me back again. But you ought not to be here. I am quite forgetting you.