human
Look here, liebchen, said Karl, emerging from a brown study,
gpt
A code, dear?
human
For your writing to me. You see Ross will have to read the letters, and how can you say in every other line you love me, with that duffer reading it out loud?
gpt
Oh, Karl--how stupid of me not to learn writing the other way! You see it never occurred to me I would be away from you. Couldn't I take that manual, and make it out from that?
human
Well--you might, but we'll do both; it will be fun to have a code. Now, when you say--'I am a trifle tired,' you mean--'Oh, sweetheart, I am so lonesome for you that I am never going away again!'
gpt
But won't Mr. Ross think it strange if I say in each letter that I am a trifle tired?
human
What do we care what he thinks? They're not his letters, are they? And when you say--'New York seems most attractive,'--you mean--'Oh, dearest, I never dreamed I loved you so much! I am finding out in a thousand new ways how much I care, and never, never, shall we be separated again.'
gpt
And when I say, 'I send you my love'--it will be perfectly proper for Mr. Ross to read that, I mean--'Dear love--I send you a thousand kisses, and I would give the world for one minute now in your arms.'