human
Come up to my room,
gpt
What do you want?
human
I want to speak to you and this is not the place.
gpt
This is the only place where I am prepared to speak to you at the moment, François, she said reproachfully.
human
Don't you realise that my father is within hearing, and at any moment Madame Meredith may come out? How would I explain my presence in your room?
gpt
Jean, I am worried, he said, in a troubled voice.
human
I cannot understand your plans--they are too clever for me, and I have known men and women of great attainment. The great Bersac----
gpt
The great Bersac is dead, she said coldly.
human
He was a man of such great attainments that he came to the knife. Besides, it is not necessary that you should understand my plans, François.
gpt
I cannot understand the letter which I wrote for you, said Mordon.
human
The letter in which I say Madame Meredith loved me. I have thought this matter out, Jean, and it seems to me that I am compromised.
gpt
Poor François, she said mockingly.
human
With whom could you be compromised but with your future wife? If I desire you to write that letter, what else matters?
gpt
I cannot speak here, he said almost roughly.
human
You must come to my room.
gpt
Very well,
human
Now explain.
gpt
I will explain to you, François, but I do not like the way you speak, she said.
human
It is not you I wish to compromise, but Madame Meredith.
gpt
In this letter I wrote for you I said I was going away. I confessed to you that I had forged a cheque for five million francs. That is a very serious document, mademoiselle, to be in the possession of anybody but myself.
human
The thing will be made very clear to you to-morrow, François, she said softly,
gpt
With me?
human
No, with Madame Meredith, she answered.
gpt
I, too, am tired of waiting for marriage and I intend asking my father's permission for the wedding to take place next week. Indeed, François, she lowered her eyes modestly,
human
I have already written to the British Consul at Nice, asking him to arrange for the ceremony to be performed.
gpt
Do you mean that? he said eagerly.
human
Jean, you are not deceiving me?
gpt
No, François, she said in that low plaintive voice of hers,
human
I could not deceive you in a matter so important to myself.
gpt
You will give me back that letter I wrote, Jean?
human
I will give it to you to-morrow.
gpt
To-night, he said, and took both her hands in his.
human
I am sure I am right. It is too dangerous a letter to be in existence, Jean, dangerous for you and for me--you will let me have it to-night?
gpt
It is in my room,
human
It is there, he said.
gpt
Jean darling, do as I ask, he pleaded.
human
You know, every time I think of that letter I go cold. I was a madman when I wrote it.
gpt
I have not got it here,
human
Forgive me, but I know I am right,