human
Wouldn't we better be going, Mrs. Purdon?
gpt
No; I want you should stay. I want you should hear what I say, so's you can tell folks, if you have to. Now, look here, Emma, she went on to the other, still obstinately silent;
human
Her steely calm broke. She burst out in a screaming, hysterical voice:
gpt
You've just _got_ to, Emma Hulett! You've just _got_ to! If you don't, I won't never go back to 'Niram's house! I'll lie in the ditch by the roadside till the poor-master comes to git me--and I'll tell everybody that it's because my own twin sister, with a house and a farm and money in the bank, turned me out to starve--
human
Good God, she's gone!
gpt
Em, listen-- The old woman went back to the nickname of their common youth.
human
Em--your Ev'leen Ann--tried to drown herself--in the Mill Brook last night ... That's what decided me--to--