human
It is so much better than I deserve, pure spirit--so much better.
gpt
Did you say you felt better?
human
Tell me who you are?
gpt
You have whispered something again. Oh! love, you are so faint and weak that I can scarcely see your lips move. But I think you know me.
human
No, no. I left no such angel as you on earth when I died.
gpt
Do you say so? Wait until I bring my ear close.
human
No. Tell me.
gpt
Don't you know your nurse, who has been with you for two weeks? the nurse that you have clung to, and moaned for when your glazed eyes could not see me? Don't you remember how you made me hold you--just so--when the fever-phantoms were chasing you? Surely we are old friends by this time?
human
My Perdita?
gpt
Why, darling, do you know me, then? Now I shall dare to hope. Oh, thank Heaven!