human
), asking if it
gpt
and denouncing the
human
who had been
gpt
Come in, my child, come in,
human
Father, I said,
gpt
The news. . . .
human
I mean the news in the newspaper.
gpt
Ah, the news in the newspaper.
human
Isn't it glorious? That terrible marriage is over at last! Without my doing anything, either! Do you remember what you said the last time I came here?
gpt
The last time. . . .
human
You said that I, being a Catholic, could not break my marriage without breaking my faith. But my husband, being a Protestant, had no compunction. So it has come to the same thing in the end, you see. And now I'm free.
gpt
You're free . . . free, are you?
human
It seems they have been keeping it all away from me--making no defence, I suppose--and it was only this morning I heard the news.
gpt
Only this morning, was it?
human
I first saw it in a newspaper, but afterwards Martin himself came to tell me.
gpt
Martin came, did he?
human
He doesn't care in the least; in fact, he is glad, and says we can be married at any time.
gpt
Married at any time--he says that, does he?
human
Of course nothing is arranged yet, dear Father, but I couldn't help coming to see you about it. I want everything to be simple and quiet--no display of any kind.
gpt
Simple and quiet, do you?
human
Early in the morning--immediately after mass, perhaps.
gpt
Immediately after mass. . . .
human
Only a few wild flowers on the altar, and the dear homely souls who love me gathered around.
gpt
The dear, homely souls. . . .
human
It will be a great, great thing for me, but I don't want to force myself upon anybody, or to triumph over any one--least of all over my poor father, now that he is so sick and down.
gpt
No, no . . . now that he is so sick and down.
human
I shall want you to marry us, Daddy Dan--not the Bishop or anybody else of that kind, you know.
gpt
You'll want me to marry you--not the Bishop or anybody else of that kind.
human
But Father Dan, I cried, laughing a little uneasily (for I had begun to realise that he was only repeating my own words),