human
You have loved very often, have you not?
gpt
So I thought until I knew you, but I feel now that I never really loved before I saw you.
human
Oh, yes! a man always says that to the last woman to whom he pays court. But I have been told that you have been guilty of a great many follies for your mistresses.
gpt
Follies do not necessarily denote love.
human
Sometimes they do. And suppose I wanted you to do something of the sort for me----
gpt
Why, I should be only too happy, if it were a means of making myself agreeable to you.
human
Ah! you do not know me, you see. I am very peculiar. I want the man who loves me to gratify all my tastes, all my whims; to divine them himself; I do not understand the love that hesitates before a desire of the loved one. If I had been a man, I would have thrown myself into the water, into the flames, to prove my love for a woman! I would have defied all dangers, challenged all my rivals--in short, I would have turned the world upside down, aye, and committed crimes, if she had asked me to.
gpt
Have you some little crime you would like me to commit? or would you like me to jump into the water?
human
Mon Dieu! monsieur, what will you say next? I should be very sorry, indeed, if the slightest accident should happen to you on my account. Really, I don't know why I said that. I don't always consider what I say.
gpt
But you consider what is said to you, surely?
human
Where do you live now? she asked.
gpt
Is it true that you have moved?
human
No, madame; I am still in the same house.
gpt
And you live with your father, I believe?
human
On the same landing.
gpt
For a young man who likes to do foolish things, it must be a little burdensome sometimes to have such a neighbor.
human
Oh! no, madame; I am my own master; I do what I choose; my father does not interfere with me in any way; he is so kind to me!
gpt
Ah! he loves you very dearly, does he?
human
Yes, I cannot doubt it. And it is quite natural, as I am the only one left of a numerous family.
gpt
What! has he no other child?
human
I had two brothers and a sister--and I alone am left.
gpt
But we are talking of very serious subjects, said Albert, after a pause;