human
Siena? said Valeria with a sigh,
gpt
I used to know Siena when I was young and happy. That was where I made the fatal mistake in my life. It is all a thing of the past now. I might have married a good and brilliantly intellectual man, whom I could respect and warmly admire; for whom I had every feeling but the one that we romantic women think so essential, and that people assure us is the first to depart.
human
You regret that you held fast to your own standard?
gpt
I regret that I could not see the wisdom of taking the good that was offered to me, since I could not have that which I wished. Now I have neither.
human
How do you know you would have found the other good really satisfactory!
gpt
I believe in the normal, said Valeria,
human
I don't think what we call the normal is, by any means, so safe as it sounds, for civilized women at any rate,