human
Will you say what you have to say, please, and go. I am tired, and I want to be alone.
gpt
Anna, he said,
human
You have no right at all, she answered.
gpt
Further than that, I am amazed that you should dare to allude to those few moments, to that single moment of folly. If ever I could bring myself to ask you any favour, I would ask you to forget even as I have forgotten.
human
Why in Heaven's name should I forget? he cried.
gpt
I love you, Anna, and I want you for my wife. There is nothing but your pride which stands between us.
human
There is great deal more, she answered coldly.
gpt
For one thing I am going to marry David Courtlaw.
human
It is not possible,
gpt
Why not?
human
Because you are mine. You have told me that you cared. Oh, you cannot escape from it. Anna, my love, you cannot have forgotten so soon.
gpt
That was a moment of madness, she said.
human
I was lonely. I did not know what I was saying.
gpt
I will have your reason for this, he said.
human
I will have your true reason.
gpt
You need a reason. Ask your own conscience. What sort of a standard of life yours may be I do not know, yet in your heart you know very well that every word you have spoken to me has been a veiled insult, every time you have come into my presence has been an outrage. That is what stands between us, if you would know--that.