human
Be careful, Miss Walsingham, not to get yourself into trouble,
gpt
It might prove very damaging to your character to defame the man who was to have shared with you Mrs. Brand's estates.
human
Would it not be more damaging to my character and to yours, Mr. Davenport, as retainer of the Brand estates, to allow an impostor a foothold at Seven-Oak Waaste?
gpt
Fair and softly, madam. He can't have a foothold unless you are pleased to accept him as your husband. Why attempt any exposure at all? Why not suffer his attentions until he proposes, and then dismiss him as if you were dismissing the veritable St. Udo. Be he who he may, he can't gain a foothold after that.