human
You see how it is already, Miriam said to him.
gpt
It's making her unhappy from the start. You can't conceal the truth from her very long.
human
She isn't fretting about the truth; she's fretting about what she imagines.
gpt
She's fretting because she doesn't understand, and she'll go on fretting till she does. I'm not sorry. It must show you--
human
It shows me the necessity of our being married as soon as possible, so that I may take care of her, and put a stop to it.
gpt
I agree with you that you'd put a stop to it. You'd put a stop to everything. She wouldn't live a year--or you wouldn't. Either she'd die--or she'd abhor you. And if she didn't die, you'd want to.
human
I wish to the Lord I had died--eight years ago. The great mistake I made was when the lumber-jacks loosed my hand-cuffs and started me through the woods. They called it giving me a chance, and for a few minutes I thought it was one. A chance! Good God! I remember feeling, as I ran, that I was deserting something. I didn't know what it was just then, but I've understood it since. It would have been a pluckier thing to have been in my coffin as Norrie Ford--or even doing time--than to be here as Herbert Strange.