human
You are surprised to see me, dear Agnes, he said, with a calm, slow utterance, like a man who has assumed a position he means fully to justify;
gpt
My Lord, said Agnes,
human
I humbly wait your pleasure. Anything that a poor maiden may rightly do I will endeavor, in all loving duty.
gpt
Whom do you take me for, Agnes, that you speak thus?
human
Are you not the brother of our gracious King?
gpt
No, dear maiden; and if the kind promise you lately made me is founded on this mistake, it may be retracted.
human
No, my Lord, said Agnes,--
gpt
I am, indeed, in strait and need, Agnes; the sun does not shine on a more desolate man than I am,--one more utterly alone in the world; there is no one left to love me. Agnes, can you not love me a little?--let it be ever so little, it shall content me.
human
Yes