human
I think, she said slowly at length, as he waited immovably for her answer,
gpt
Duty! Duty! he said impatiently.
human
Duty is your fetish. You sacrifice your whole life to it. And what do you get in return? A sense of virtue perhaps, nothing more. There isn't much warming power in virtue. I've tried it and I know! He broke off to utter a very bitter laugh.
gpt
And so I've given it up, he said.
human
It's a trail that leads to nowhere.
gpt
I hoped you might come to think otherwise,
human
How can I? I've lived the life of a saint for the past six months, and I am no nearer heaven than when I began. It's too slow a process for me. I wasn't made to plough an endless furrow.
gpt
We all of us say that, said Anne, with her faint smile.
human
But do we any of us really know what we were made for? Are we not all in the making still?
gpt
I can't be abstruse tonight. I know what I was made for, and I know what you were made for. That--anyway for tonight--is all that matters.