human
Afterward, they will say I had the right to see him. _ Sometimes she reminded herself, meekly, that he no longer loved her. But there was no trace of resentment in her mind; how could he love her? Nor did the fact that his love had ceased make any difference in her purpose:
gpt
Afterward, they will say I had the right to see him.
human
I won't detain him very long; it will only take a little while to tell him, she said to herself. It came over her with the shivering sense of danger escaped, that in another day she would have been too late, his mother would be at home!
gpt
She wouldn't let him see me, she thought, fearfully. Afterward, after she had seen him, she would take a train to New York and cross the ferry....
human
The water is pretty clean there,
gpt
I am a little pretty even yet, she told herself, candidly. She wanted very much to be pretty now. When she went out to the street and found it raining in a steady, gray downpour, her heart sank,--oh, she must not get wet and draggled, now! Just for this hour she must be the old Elizabeth, the Elizabeth that he used to love, fresh, with starry eyes and a shell-like color in her cheeks!--and indeed the cold rain was making her face glow like a rose; but her eyes were solemn, not starry. As her cab jolted along the rainy streets, past the red-brick houses with their white shutters and scoured door-steps--houses were people were eating their breakfasts and reading their morning papers--Elizabeth, sitting on the frayed seat of the old hack, looked out of the window and thought how strange it all was! It would be just like this to-morrow morning, and she would not know it.
human
How queer! she said to herself. But she was not frightened.
gpt
I suppose at the last minute I shall be frightened, she reflected. Then, for a moment, she forgot David and tried to realize the unrealizable: