human
Were you tired after yesterday’s ride?
gpt
Not too tired.
human
Robert told you about Tennie Morgan’s death.
gpt
How did you know?
human
You were in the Morgan chapel together. And you looked upset when you came back. I had promised to tell you the story sometime myself. I know how easy it is to get a false impression concerning family skeletons. So I asked Robert about it the minute you left the car, and I was annoyed beyond everything when he said he had told you the whole story.
gpt
But dear Mrs. De Castro! Why should you be annoyed?
human
Robert has no business ever to speak of the affair. Alice could not dispute her and Dolly went on:
gpt
I know just how he would talk about it. Not that I know what he said to you. But it would be like him to take very much more of the blame on himself than belongs to him. Men, my dear, look at these things differently from women, and usually make less of them than women do. In this case it is exactly the reverse. Robert has always had an exaggerated idea of his responsibility in the tragedy--that is why it annoys me ever to have him speak about it. I know my brother better, I think, than anybody alive knows him, and I am perfectly familiar with all the circumstances. I know what I am talking about.
human
To begin with, Tennie was an abnormal boy. He was as delicate in his mental texture as cobweb lace. His sensitiveness was something incredible and twenty things might have happened to upset his mental balance. No one, my dear, likes to talk state secrets.
gpt
Pray do not, then. It really is not necessary,
human
Oh, it is, said Dolly decidedly,
gpt
I want you to understand. Suicide has been a spectre to the Kimberlys for ages. Two generations ago Schuyler Kimberly committed suicide at sixty-six--think of it! Oh! I could tell you stories. There has been no suicide in this generation. But the shadow, Dolly’s tones were calm but inflected with a burden of what cannot be helped may as well be admitted,
human
Don’t say that of yourself. You are not self-indulgent, you are generous.