human
That was what I grew up with. I don't know when it started, but the determination to punish him grew and grew in my mind until it crowded out every other thought. I planned for years before I did anything. I followed him. I learned all about him. His avarice went to such lengths at last that I began to see my chance to show him up. I met Dordess and the others, and the idea of the Avengers slowly took shape. There was something fine to us in the idea of making him pay to bring pleasure and health to the poor. None of us would spend a cent of his filthy money on ourselves. What have I done to Deaves to repay the crushing blows he dealt to me and mine?--a few pin-pricks, that's all. Well, it is my life. I cannot change it now.
gpt
I understand, he said.
human
It excuses your heart, but not your head. It was so foolish to try to buck the law!
gpt
I can't help it, she said.
human
I would rather die than return what I have made that old robber disgorge. I have worked too long for this!
gpt
You can't live outside the pale of the law, he said.
human
No man can, let alone a woman. Only wretchedness can come of it!
gpt
I'll take my chance, she said with curling lip.
human
Thank God, I have friends who are not so timid.
gpt
Well, never mind the right and the wrong of it, he said earnestly.
human
Do it because I love you. I love you with all my heart. We quarrel, but my heart speaks to yours. You must hear it. I have endured from you what I believe no man ever forgave a woman. But I forgive you. If you go to jail my life will be a desert. But go to jail you shall, unless you make restitution!
gpt
Funny kind of love!
human
It is the best kind of love. I have sense enough left to realise that if I give in to you on a clear question of right it would ruin us both. We would despise each other.
gpt
I have promised to trouble the Deaves no further, she said.
human
They're satisfied.
gpt
The bonds must go back.
human
I had already decided to break up the Avengers, too. Isn't that enough?
gpt
You ask the impossible, she said.
human
I'd rather die!
gpt
But to go to jail, he said relentlessly,
human
(he was not at all sure of this, but he supposed she was not either),
gpt
You say you love me, she murmured,
human
I must!
gpt
I love you. Isn't that enough? Costs me something to say it. Costs me my pride. It would have been more merciful to beat me with a club. I cannot entreat you. I never learned how. But--but I am entreating you. Love me, Evan. Let us begin from now. Let the past be past.
human
I can't!
gpt
It is useless, then, she muttered.
human
I will not be a repentant sinner!
gpt
For the sake of our love, Corinna!
human
You do not love me. You want to master me.
gpt
The police!
human
Then it's over!
gpt
No! he cried.
human
Quick! Write! I'll get you out!
gpt
Ah, come! come!
human
Choose! he whispered.
gpt
A living death or happiness!