human
I wonder if you're a woman,
gpt
I wonder, too, seeing what you have made me put up with.
human
Come, now, I've always treated you well.
gpt
And other women better.
human
What other women?
gpt
You know very well.
human
I don't. I know nothin', not even why you're bullyraggin' me. I swear, cried Jim, pathetically, to the ceiling,
gpt
Go on. I admire your descriptions of my personality. They are so extraordinarily vivid and true.
human
Who ain't what she ought to be.
gpt
How did you guess, Jim?
human
Guess what?
gpt
That I am not what I ought to be.
human
Then you ain't t
gpt
Dr. Demetrius might say so.
human
Leah!
gpt
Jim, I believe--really, I believe that you have some love for me after all.
human
Oh, hang your fine talk. Demetrius?
gpt
I have kissed him.
human
He dared to kiss you?
gpt
I dared to kiss him.
human
You devil! He suddenly raised his fist. Leah never winced, although he towered over her with his mouth working and his eyes animal in their unconsidering passion. It was impossible to strike, although his heart cried out that she ought to die. With an oath--it came out savagely this time--the fist dropped.
gpt
I'll have a divorce,
human
Because I kissed a man. Nonsense.
gpt
Kissin' doesn't stop at kissin'.
human
Not with you, perhaps.
gpt
Leah! he turned and reclosed the door, which his rage had wrenched open.
human
I know you've got a beastly tongue, and all that; but I could have sworn that you were as pure as my mother.
gpt
Well, and so you can.
human
What? After you confessin' that you kissed Demetrius?
gpt
Ugh! Leah shuddered, as a picture after the style of Wiertz rose to her mind's eye.
human
I kissed a thing which was once Demetrius.
gpt
Is he dead, then?
human
Better if he were. Ugh! That kiss was the most horrible thing I ever had to do in my life.
gpt
Why did you do it, then?
human
I was forced to,
gpt
There's somethin' in this I don't catch on to, he muttered; then, with gruff tenderness, and a timid caress from which Leah did not shrink,
human
What is it, old girl?
gpt
I believe you love me,
human
You know I do, only you keep me at arm's length.
gpt
Have I not cause?
human
You wouldn't have, if you behaved as a fellow's wife should, said the Duke, bluntly.
gpt
Drop skirtin' round the bush and plunge in.