human
We don't seem to have thought out anything very helpful, sighed George, as he threw himself into a chair.
gpt
D'you think it's the least good going round to Beresford's place and forcing Sonia to go back?
human
Do you want her to go back, even if you can make her? I asked once more.
gpt
She's been saying for weeks that she regarded her marriage as at an end; now she's proved it. Do you want to send her back on those terms? And does O'Rane want to have her back?
human
I--don't--know, he groaned.
gpt
And this must have bowled poor old Raney over so much that I don't suppose _he_ knows. Ordinarily--but it's absurd to use such a word.... I can only say this; he loved her so much, he loved her for so many years, he believed in her--or in some wonderful idealised conception of her by which he saw every kind of saintly quality where the rest of us only regarded her as a good-natured, but quite heartless, fascinating coquette--he thought of her and dreamed of her, she was so much a part of his life, the big part, the only thing that mattered.... He paused, out of breath.
human
You'd have said that it would have been like cutting off his arms and legs, if he'd lost her, if she'd died or married Jim Loring or the other fellow she was engaged to.... But I don't know now. When you've given all that love and trust, when you've idealised anyone, and the whole conception crumbles away.... Stornaway, he's extraordinarily frank; I fancy I know more of him than most people. Well, I _do_ know how he loved that strumpet; I don't know, I can't say whether he'd love her still or whether he'd just want to strangle her and then cut his own throat.... But I think it's worth trying. We can at least give him a chance, we can keep his hands off her---- He jumped up, leaving his coffee untasted.
gpt
I'm going to have a shot.
human
Shall I come with you?
gpt
I want everyone I can get!