human
It was convenient here, he said.
gpt
I came here to clear out my papers and boxes. And there's no chance of interruptions.
human
You know, my dear Stratton, in this confounded business my heart's with you. It has been all along. If I could have seen a clear chance before you--for you and Mary to get away--and make any kind of life of it--though she's my cousin--I'd have helped you. Indeed I would. But there's no sort of chance--not the ghost of a chance....
gpt
You know as well as I do what that romantic flight abroad, that Ouidaesque casa in some secluded valley, comes to in reality. All round Florence there's no end of such scandalous people, I've been among them, the nine circles of the repenting scandalous, all cutting one another.
human
I agree, I said.
gpt
And yet----
human
What?
gpt
We could have come back.
human
No.
gpt
But people have done so. It would have been a clean sort of divorce.