human
She must have forgiven him!
gpt
May I walk home with you, Elizabeth?
human
I'm not going home. I am--just walking.
gpt
So am I, he said. He had got himself in hand by this time; every faculty was alert; he had his chance to ask for pardon!
human
Come out to Mrs. Todd's, and have some pink ice-cream. Elizabeth, do you remember the paper roses on those dreadful marble-topped tables that were sort of semi-transparent?
gpt
I had forgotten them; how horrid they were!
human
I'll treat. Come along, let's have a spree!
gpt
You always did do the treating, she said absently. Blair laughed. The primitive emotions are always naked; but how inevitably most of us try to cover them with the fig-leaf of trivial speech--a laugh, perhaps, or a question about the weather; somehow, in some way, the nakedness must be covered! So now, Love and Hate, walking side by side in Mercer's murky noon, were for the moment hidden from each other. Blair laughed, and said he would make her
human
Oh, come in! You needn't eat the stuff, but just for the fun of the thing; Mrs. Todd will be charmed to see us, I'm sure.
gpt
Well, Elizabeth agreed; for a moment the vapid talk was like balm laid upon burnt flesh. Then suddenly she remembered how David had sprung up that snowy path to the toll-house, to knock on the window and cry,
human
I've got her! Ah, he was a little too sure; a _little_ too sure! She was not so easy to get as all that, not so cheap as he seemed to think--though she had offered herself; had even told him she was
gpt
Yes, let us go! Elizabeth said fiercely. At least this chuckling old woman should see that David had not