human
I suppose they won't be back for a good while,
gpt
Oh, I expect them in a week or two.
human
So soon?
gpt
Adelaide is always in a hurry, and this was only to be quite a short trip.
human
Once out there how can they come away so soon? I should want to stay for months. If I once began really to travel there would never be an end to it, unless I were not my own master.
gpt
It's quite extraordinary how you master yourself, Mrs. Mansfield said.
human
You are a dragon to yourself, and what a fierce unyielding dragon! It's a fine thing to have such a strong will.
gpt
Ah! But if I let it go!
human
Do you think you ever will?
gpt
Yes, he said with a sort of deep sadness.
human
On one side's the will. But on the other side there's an absurd impulsiveness. But don't let's talk any more of me. Do tell me some more about Algiers and your daughter.
gpt
If Charmian really does care for him he doesn't know it.
human
him married. She could not pick out any girl or woman whom she knew, and say:
gpt
That would be the wife for him. Evidently he was one of the exceptional men for whom the normal conditions are not intended. She thought again of his music, and found a reason there. But then she remembered yellow-haired Fan. He was at home with a child, why not with a wife and child of his own? She put aside the problem, but did not resign the thought,
human
In any case Charmian would be the wrong woman for him to marry. And when she said that to herself she was thinking solely of the welfare of Heath. Because he was a man, and had been unreserved with her, Mrs. Mansfield instinctively desired to protect his life. She had the feeling,
gpt
I understand him better than others.