human
I have the notion that Mr. Hamlin expects too much o' me.
gpt
What a queer, upsetting idea!
human
I be asking myself if my heart be right. It bain't.
gpt
Maybe 'tis your stomach, Mother.
human
No, Alferd. I be no true patriot.
gpt
Well, I never! If such a woman as you are is bogged down, where are we, I ask?
human
You be in the right path, Alferd. 'Tis some comfort to think o' that. Now, let me bide wi' my own thoughts. Fancy be waiting for 'ee. Be kind to the maid, Alferd, if so be as you find her, like me, down on beam ends after this marning's sermon.
gpt
Fancy'll be all right, I wager.
human
Maybe. I tell 'ee this: we women be fearfully and wonnerfully made--a puzzle to ourselves and all mortal men. That be a fact, my son. I knows this too hard for any man to understand. If you stayed on here wi' me, wi' the whole-souled notion o' comforting an unhappy 'ooman, I should wax peevish wi' 'ee. God forgive us! We be cruel to they we love, when life goes wrong wi' us.