human
Elena and
gpt
Alvarado.
human
How _dared_ he buy a ticket for me all the way to Texas! Annesley asked herself.
gpt
But I might have known how it would be, she thought.
human
Why expect a man like him to keep a promise?
gpt
on which she had been counting, had been nothing more original than to break his word and
human
I saw the tickets,
gpt
Did you?
human
You bought one for me to Texas.
gpt
Of course. Did you think I wouldn't? That would have been poor economy in the game we've been playing.
human
What do you mean?
gpt
You never cared to talk things over. I saw you didn't want to, so I didn't press. And when this complication about the Waldos came up, I thought--perhaps I was mistaken--that you--trusted me to do the best I could.
human
Yes. That's why I expected you not to get me a ticket to Texas.
gpt
How far _did_ you expect me to get it?
human
I--don't know.
gpt
That's just it. Neither did I know. I got the whole ticket, so you might choose your stopping-place.
human
Oh! Annesley was ashamed, though she was sure she had no need to be.
gpt
That was why!
human
That was why. Things being as they are, it was well I had your ticket to show with mine, wasn't it?
gpt
I--suppose so. But--what am I to do?
human
We'll talk of that in the train. There won't be time before, because of these people, and because I must leave you for two hours before the train goes.
gpt
Leave me!
human
You will be all right with the Waldos and their friends. I'll explain to them. There's no time to lose. I must go off at once.
gpt
My mind is like a ghost, she thought, bitterly,
human
That wonderful Italian house, Mrs. Waldo was saying, as the taxi slowed down for one of her lectures,
gpt
No, let's drive on, Annesley begged, anxiously.
human
My husband knows Mr. Van Vreck. They have business together. He won't want us.