human
Thank you, Mr. Moss, I said,
gpt
Those are the very words I spoke, and I looked him full in the face.
human
Why, what do you expect from me? he said.
gpt
Insult, I replied, as bold as brass. And then we are playing the two lovers at
human
The Embankment. Isn't it a pretty family history? He said nothing at the moment, but came back in half an hour to make some unnecessary remarks about the part.
gpt
Why did you say just now that I insulted you? he asked.
human
Because you do, I replied.
gpt
Never, never! he exclaimed, with most grotesque energy.
human
I have never insulted you. You know, my dear, he has twenty times endeavoured to kiss my hand, and once he saw fit to stroke my hair. Beast! If you knew the sort of feeling I have for him--such as you would have if you found a cockroach in your dressing-case. Of course in our life young women have to put up with this kind of thing, and some of them like it. But he knows that I am going to be married, or at any rate am engaged, Mr. Frank. I make constant use of your name, telling everybody that I am the future Mrs. Jones, putting such weight upon the Jones. With me he knows that it is an insult; but I don't want to quarrel with him if I can help it, and therefore I softened it down.
gpt
You hear me say, Mr. Moss, that I'm an engaged young woman. Knowing that, you oughtn't to speak to me as you do.
human
Why, what do I say? You should have seen his grin as he asked me; such a leer of triumph, as though he knew that he were getting the better of me.
gpt
Mr. Jones wouldn't approve if he were to see it.
human
But luckily he don't, said my admirer. Oh, if you knew how willingly I'd stand at a tub and wash your shirts, while the very touch of his gloves makes me creep all over with horror.
gpt
Let us have peace for the future, I said.
human
I dislike all those familiarities. If you will only give them up we shall go on like a house on fire.