human
Where were you serving?
gpt
At Berdyansk.
human
And where are you going now? Home?
gpt
No, answered the labourer.
human
I have no home.
gpt
But where were you born and brought up?
human
In the province of Oryol. Till I went into the army I lived with my mother, in my step-father's house; my mother was the head of the house, and people looked up to her, and while she lived I was cared for. But while I was in the army I got a letter telling me my mother was dead. . . . And now I don't seem to care to go home. It's not my own father, so it's not like my own home.
gpt
Then your father is dead?
human
I don't know. I am illegitimate.