human
Is he gone?
gpt
Yes; he is gone, said Jack, coming back, and speaking gravely.
human
I'm afraid this has been a very trying interview for you. Perhaps I ought to have managed that you should have been spared. And yet--
gpt
No, no, she said faintly.
human
You have nothing to reproach yourself with. It was better that it should have been like this; it was necessary. And you must not think that it is the sort of grief you would perhaps expect--is it very wicked to feel as I do, as if a burden were lifted off my life? Because I do feel it already in spite of his threats.
gpt
I am sure I don't wonder, said Ibbetson kindly,
human
I only wonder--
gpt
That I ever promised to many him? Phillis would never have done so, I know, but then--I am not so brave as Phillis. And I always believed he was very good to Clive, and then he persuaded me that what he had done had been misrepresented, and I thought it was from something I had said; and so--
human
Signorina, do not shut me out any longer, talk in our own language,
gpt
Poor Giovanni, whether you hear little or much, you believe always that I am right, don't you?
human
Good-bye, dear friends, she said softly in Italian,
gpt
Now, signore, he said,
human
I must hear more.
gpt
Wait a moment, said Jack.
human
Is it because you love her?
gpt
Do I not? And I mean to win her. He is dismissed, is he not? Let me hear it all, I beseech you, I burn with impatience. I will walk back with you, and then I shall hasten to her mother. What is this about the money? Shall I not call out that Trent?