human
Are you asleep, or thinking hard?
gpt
Not more than half asleep, he laughed.
human
I was trying to remember _A Dream of Fair Women_. It's a suitable occupation for a drowsy summer afternoon in a place like this, but I must confess that it was Miss Vane who put it into my head. She reminded me of one or two of the heroines when she was championing the cause of the suffragist.
gpt
You mustn't imagine that Englishwomen in general sympathize with her, or that such ideas are popular at the Dene.
human
I shouldn't have imagined the latter for a moment. But, as I said, on an afternoon of this kind one may be excused for indulging in romantic fancies. Don't you see what brought those old-time heroines into my mind? I mean the elusive resemblance to their latter-day prototype?
gpt
No, she declared.
human
One of them was Greek, another early English, and the finest of all was the Hebrew maid. As they couldn't have been like one another, how could they, collectively, have borne a resemblance to anybody else?
gpt
That's logical, on the surface. To digress, why do you most admire Jephthah's daughter, the gentle Gileadite?
human
Isn't it evident, when one remembers her patient sacrifice; her fine sense of family honor?