human
I won't go, Jack. I thought something of the sort was meant when you asked me to come here. I don't care what happens to me. I can't go.
gpt
But I want you to care, Nessa. It's----
human
Well, I don't--and I won't.
gpt
You're not afraid of the trip?
human
I'm not that sort of coward, thank you,
gpt
I'm going to arrange with the pilot, Vandervelt's his name, for him to look after you when you land and see you to some station.
human
I'm not taking the least interest in all this.
gpt
You'd better book right through to Rotterdam and go to our Consulate, and I'll look for you there.
human
I'm not going, Jack.
gpt
You'd rather be clapped into an internment camp?
human
I don't care for fifty internment camps. They can do what they please with me, but I won't be coward enough to desert you.
gpt
You can tell everything at the Consulate and----
human
Is that a Home for strayed cowards?
gpt
No, it's the best meeting place for us and a safe refuge for quixotic girls.
human
They're welcome to it, then. I shan't disturb them. If you wish to make me hate you, you'll persist in all this.
gpt
I'd rather have you hate me than that you should stop here.
human
How can you say such a thing as that?
gpt
Because I mean it; every syllable of it, Nessa, on my honour.
human
I've never been thought a coward before,
gpt
What I do think is that if what you talk of doing is cowardice, I'd rather be thought a coward than anything else.
human
That means that you approve of it then?
gpt
On the contrary. Don't let us get at cross purposes. I must be off to this job. The thing is this. If I'm alone here, I can get through everything without risk; and I can't if you stop. It's splendid of you to wish to stick it with me; but it'll be fatal to me; fatal to both of us, indeed.
human
I don't care about myself.
gpt
Then care for me. Do it for my sake.
human
How would my stopping hurt you?
gpt
There isn't time to go over it all again, Nessa. But if you persist in this, there's no use in continuing a useless struggle to get away. I've made the arrangement; and if you won't leave, I shall go straight from here to the police, tell them I'm Lassen, and leave them to do what they will.
human
You wouldn't be so mad! You're only saying it to force me to give in,
gpt
Call it what you like; but I shall do it. Keep that in mind when the time comes for you to decide;