human
If you would use your ability on behalf of your sex instead of against it, Henriette, women would have cause to bless you, for all time!
gpt
Ah! if you did but know it, I _am_ using what ability I have on their behalf, Miss Temperley replied.
human
I am trying to keep them true to their noble mission. But I did not come to discuss general questions. I came to appeal to your best self, Hadria.
gpt
I am ready, said Hadria.
human
Only, before you start, I want you to remember clearly what took place at Dunaghee before my marriage; for I foresee that our disagreement will chiefly hang upon your lapse of memory on that point, and upon my perhaps inconveniently distinct recollection of those events.
gpt
I wish to lay before you certain facts and certain results of your present conduct,
human
Very good. I wish to lay before you certain facts and certain results of your past conduct.
gpt
Ah! do not let us wrangle, Hadria.
human
I don't wish to wrangle, but I must keep hold of these threads that you seem always to drop. And then there is another point: when I talked of leaving home, it was not _I_ who suggested that it should be for ever.
gpt
I know, I know, cried Henriette hastily.
human
I have again and again pointed out to Hubert how wrong he was in that, and how he gave you a pretext for what you have done. I admit it and regret it deeply. Hubert lost his temper; that is the fact of the matter. He thought himself bitterly wronged by you.
gpt
Quite so; he felt it a bitter wrong that I should claim that liberty of action which I warned him before our marriage that I _should_ claim. He made no objection _then_: on the contrary, he professed to agree with me; and declared that he did not care what I might think; but now he says that in acting as I have acted, I have forfeited my position, and need not return to the Red House.
human
I know. But he spoke in great haste and anger. He has made me his _confidante_.
gpt
And his ambassador?