human
Do you never purpose visiting the ruin again? asked Cleve.
gpt
I had hoped it interested you and Miss Fanshawe too much to be dropped on so slight an acquaintance.
human
I don't know. Our little expeditions have been very few and very uncertain,
gpt
Pray, don't treat me _quite_ as a stranger, said Cleve, in a lone and earnest tone;
human
Oh! certainly, Mr. Verney, we do.
gpt
And I so wish you would tell her that I have been ever since thinking how I can be of any real use--ever so little--if only to prove my anxiety to make her trust me even a little.
human
I think, Mr. Verney, it is quite enough if we don't _dis_trust you; and I can assure you we do not,
gpt
My uncle, though not the sort of man you may have been led to suppose him--not at all an unkind man--is, I must allow, a little odd and difficult sometimes--you see I'm not speaking to you as a stranger--and he won't do things in a moment; still if I knew exactly what Sir Booth expected from him--if you think I might venture to ask an interview----
human
Quite _impossible_! You must not _think_ of it, exclaimed the lady with a look almost of terror,
gpt
Well, _you_ know best, of course. But I expect to be called away, my stay at Ware can't be much longer. My uncle writes as if he wants me; and I wish so much, short as it is, that I could improve it to any useful purpose. I can't tell you how very much I pity Miss Fanshawe, immured in that gloomiest of all gloomy places. Such an unnatural and terrifying seclusion for one so very young.
human
It is certainly very _triste_,
gpt
She draws, you told me, and likes the garden, and reads; you must allow me to lend you some books, won't you? _you_ I say; and _you_ can lend them to her, he added, seeing a hesitation,