human
Thanks mean so little. Would you have had me watch you bleed to death? Is there no one in the world who would have missed you?
gpt
I do not know,
human
Ah, there’s another secret out! She has flouted my dear Puritan.
gpt
I will not have that name! There was never a Metcalf yet but stood for the King.
human
A painter should be here, she said, turning at last.
gpt
My six-foot Puritan, what a picture it would make—the blue April sky, and the little tufts of cloud, fleecy as lambs’-wool, and the outrageous crimson flaring from the guns! Will they contrive to hit the Castle again, think you? It is time their marksmanship improved.
human
I was thinking of Prince Rupert, he said stubbornly.
gpt
If Michael cannot ride with me, I must go alone.