human
Are you cold?
gpt
No: feel.
human
That is love,
gpt
My love is consuming me, she went on, as if speaking to herself.
human
I can feel nothing else; neither cold, nor night, nor danger--nothing. I can only feel _you_. I want nothing but your love. I only want to live near you always--till death, and after death--always with you--always, always.
gpt
Ah me!
human
What did you say?
gpt
It was a sigh, dear one; a sigh over our dream.
human
Don't talk like that; don't say that,
gpt
Why shouldn't I say it, Anna? The sweet dream that we have been dreaming together--any day we may have to wake from it. They aren't willing that we should live together.
human
Who--they?
gpt
He who can dispose of you as he wishes, Cesare Dias.
human
Have you seen him?
gpt
Yes; to-day.
human
And he won't consent?
gpt
He won't consent.
human
Why not?
gpt
Because you have money, and I have none. Because you are noble, and I'm not.
human
But I adore you, Giustino.
gpt
That matters little to your guardian.
human
He's a bad man.
gpt
He's a man,
human
But it's an act of cruelty that he's committing,
gpt
What did you answer? What did you plead? Didn't you tell him again that you love me, that I adore you, that I shall die if we are separated? Didn't you describe our despair to him?
human
It was useless,
gpt
Oh, dear! Oh, dear! You didn't tell him of our love, of our happiness? You didn't implore him, weeping? You didn't try to move his hard old heart? But what sort of man are you; what sort of soul have you, that you let them sentence us to death like this? O Lord! O Lord!--what man have I been loving?
human
Anna, Anna!
gpt
Why didn't you defy him? Why didn't you rebel? You're young; you're brave. How could Cesare Dias, almost an old man, with ice in his veins, how could he frighten you?
human
Because Cesare Dias was right, Anna,
gpt
Oh, horror! Horrible sacrilege of love!