human
Who told you to come home?... What are you doing here?... I ordered you to stay away with your meddling and spying. How dare you come back without my permission?
gpt
Don't touch me, she said, her voice brittle and cold like arctic ice.
human
Don't dare touch me.... I swore on the Bible, but if you touch me, if you ever touch me with so much as the tip of your finger, I'll forget it.... I can hang you, she said, and it seemed to him her eyes leaped into sudden savagery,
gpt
You would? You would, eh, you cat?... I'll show you. I'll cage you.
human
Have you kept your promise?
gpt
Promise? What promise? What business is it of yours what I've done?
human
It is my business. It was a bargain. Have you kept it? Have you kept clear of these spies? Have you thrown them out of the house? Have you stopped your fires and your explosions and your murders?
gpt
Yes,
human
I don't believe you, she said;
gpt
I don't believe you intended to. He snarled at her incoherently.
human
My country is at war, she said, passionately,
gpt
Yes, he said.
human
The war--I'm through with them. I'm an American citizen.
gpt
If you hadn't said that I might have believed you. I know what sort of American citizen you are!... You lied to me and got me out of the way.... What's a lie more or less among Germans?
human
I lied, did I? I'll show you how I lied. He was insane with passion.
gpt
I _did_ lie.... Did you, a squalling cat of a girl, think you could interfere? This damned country--a cat's-paw for England.... I'm a German--a German, do you hear? And you're a German.... We fight for the fatherland.... They think to make war! They think to crush the fatherland!... We're teaching them a lesson. When the day is come--when the call goes out--then I won't be a German in America, I'll be a German in Germany!...