human
I can't keep you from having your opinion--
gpt
Nor can I save you from having yours. Look at me, judge! He was bolt upright now, throwing his arms wide with a gesture in which there was more appeal than indignation
human
Look at me! I'm a strong, healthy-bodied, healthy-minded fellow of twenty-four; but I'm drenched to the skin, I'm half naked, I'm nearly dead with hunger, I'm an outlaw for life--and you're responsible for it all.
gpt
I had my duty to perform--
human
Good God, man, don't sit there and call that thing your duty! You're something more than a wheel in a machine. You were a human being before you were a judge. With your convictions you should have come down from the bench and washed your hands of the whole affair. The very action would have given me a chance--
gpt
You mustn't speak like that to my husband, Mrs. Wayne broke in, indignantly, from the doorway.
human
If you only knew what he has suffered on your account--
gpt
Is it anything like what I've suffered on his?
human
I dare say it's worse. He has scarcely slept or eaten since he knew he would have to pass that dreadful sen--
gpt
Come! come! Wayne exclaimed, in the impatient tone of a man who puts an end to a useless discussion.
human
We can't spend time on this subject any longer. I'm not on my defence--
gpt
You _are_ on your defence, Ford declared, instantly.
human
Even your wife puts you there. We're not in a courtroom as we were this morning. Circumstantial evidence means nothing to us in this isolated house, where you're no longer the judge, as I'm no longer the prisoner. We're just two naked human beings, stripped of everything but their inborn rights--and I claim mine.
gpt
Well--what are they?
human
They're simple enough. I claim the right to have something to eat, and to go my way without being molested--or betrayed. You'll admit I'm not asking much.
gpt
You may have the food, Mrs. Wayne said, in a tone not without compassion.
human
I'll go and get it.