human
Would it be indiscreet to ask if you are hungry?
gpt
Yes, sir, it would be indiscreet,
human
Indeed, and why?
gpt
I will tell you. Because I should no sooner have told you that I was hungry than you would have asked permission to go and order my dinner. No sooner would I have given you permission to do so than you would have requested to have it served at the same table with yours. In other words, you would have invited me to take dinner with you, which, as you see, would be an indiscretion.
human
Really, mademoiselle, said d'Argentan,
gpt
That, retorted Diane with a frown,
human
Are you in mourning for a husband? Your passport describes you as unmarried and not as a widow.
gpt
I am unmarried, and a young girl, sir, if one can remain so after five years of solitude and misfortune. My last relative, he who was everything in the world to me, has just died. Reassure yourself, sir, you have not, in leaving Paris, lost your seductive powers, but I cannot consistently consent to recognize the merits of those who address me, and who see that in spite of my mourning I am young, and that in spite of my grief I am fair. And now I am as hungry as one can be who drinks tears, and who lives on memories instead of hopes. I will dine as usual in the same room with you, assuring you that under any other circumstances, were it only out of gratitude to you for your attentions during the journey, I would have dined at the same table with you.
human
Madame, said he,