human
They'll expect you at Rimouski, because your luggage will already have gone on board at Montreal. Yes, she continued, in reply to his astonishment,
gpt
I've forwarded all the trunks and boxes that came to me from my father. I told my guardian I was sending them to be stored--and I am, for you'll store them for me in London when you've done with them. Here are the keys.
human
I sent the trunks for two reasons; first, because there might be things in them you could use till you get something better; and then I wanted to prevent suspicion arising from your sailing without luggage. Every little thing of that sort counts. The trunks have 'H.S.' painted in white letters on them; so that you'll have no difficulty in knowing them at sight. I've put a name with the same initials on the ticket. You'd better use it till you feel it safe to take your own again.
gpt
What name?
human
Never mind now, she said, quickly.
gpt
It's just a name--any name. You can look at it afterward. We'd better go on.
human
Wait a minute. So your name begins with S!
gpt
Like a good many others,
human
Then tell me what it is. Don't let me go away without knowing it. You can't think what it means to me.
gpt
I should think you'd see what it means to me.
human
I don't. What harm can it do you?
gpt
If you don't see, I'm afraid I can't explain. To be nameless is--- how shall I say it?--a sort of protection to me. In helping you, and taking care of you, I've done what almost any really nice girl would have shrunk from. There are plenty of people who would say is was wrong. And in a way--a way I could never make you understand, unless you understand already--it's a relief to me that you don't know who I am. And even that isn't everything.
human
Well--what else?
gpt
When this little episode is over --her voice trembled, and it was not without some blinking of the eyes that she was able to begin again--
human
That's what I complain of. Suppose I pull the thing off, and make a success of myself somewhere else, how should I communicate with you again?
gpt
Why should you communicate with me at all?
human
To pay you back your money, for one thing--
gpt
Oh, that doesn't matter.
human
Perhaps it doesn't from your point of view; but it does from mine. But it wouldn't be my only reason in any case.
gpt
I'm afraid we haven't time to talk about it now, she said, hurriedly.
human
We really must be going on.
gpt
I'm not going to talk about it now, he declared, rising in his turn.
human
I said it would be a reason for my wanting to communicate with you again. I shall want to tell you something then; though perhaps by that time you won't want to hear it.
gpt
Hadn't we better wait and see?
human
That's what I shall have to do; but how can I come back to you at all if I don't know who you are?
gpt
I shall have to leave that to your ingenuity, she laughed, with an attempt to treat the matter lightly.
human
In the mean time we must hurry on. It's absolutely necessary that you should set out by sunset.