human
Well, I've done it now for good and all,
gpt
Oh yes, you've done it. And what are you going to do next?
human
Just what Hobart asked me! Why should he--or why should you? If a woman doesn't marry, or becomes a widow, you don't ask her what she's going to do next! Consider me unmarried, or, if you like, a widow.
gpt
That's all very well--excellently put. I am rebuked! Stephen smiled comfortably and broadly.
human
You women do put things well. But may I observe that, if you were the sort of woman you're asking me to think about, you'd probably be living pretty contentedly with Cyril Maxon?
gpt
I think I see. Yes!
human
People differ as well as cases.
gpt
Hobart Gaynor's rather uneasy about me, I think.
human
And you about yourself?
gpt
No, I'm just rather excited, Stephen.
human
You're a small boat--and it's a big sea.
gpt
That's the excitement of it. I've been--land-locked--for years. Oh, beached--whatever's your best metaphor for somebody wasting all this fine life!
human
Do you suppose you made your husband happy?
gpt
I really don't know, said Winnie.
human
I always seemed to be rather--well, rather a minor interest.
gpt
I expect not--I really expect not, you know.
human
Supposing I was, or supposing I wasn't--what does it amount to?
gpt
I was only just looking at it from his point of view for a minute.
human
Did he make me happy?
gpt
Oh, certainly the thing wasn't successful all round,
human
He said marriage wasn't invented solely to make people happy.
gpt
Well, I suppose he's got an argument there. But you probably thought that the institution might chuck in a little more of that ingredient incidentally?
human
Rather my feeling--yes. You put things well too, now and then, Stephen.
gpt
You suffer under the disadvantage of being a very attractive woman.
human
We must bear our infirmities with patience, mustn't we?