human
How dare you?
gpt
Did you not know I would dare anything?
human
Did you not know I would dare anything to see you? He pleaded conscience stricken at his blunder.
gpt
I asked you, I told you, the night you came home, to give me an opportunity to--to see you.
human
You have!
gpt
You know what I meant, not with a crowd about you, but when I--I--you have made a hedge of your visitors, he accused. It was exactly what she had done, and done wilfully.
human
You knew I longed to see you.
gpt
Will you walk into the library?
human
No!
gpt
I did not know you were fond of the kitchen. Have this chair,
human
Does it remind you of home?
gpt
God forbid!
human
Sit down; I will show you what a Virginia kitchen is like. I'll bake you a cake, she added, with a saucy air, for all the fear that was tugging at her heart,
gpt
I was never good!
human
No, thoughtfully;
gpt
I want none of your cakes!
human
I want you!
gpt
I love you; you know it--
human
Will you marry me?
gpt
Marry him--marry him--
human
You know how I love you, long for you. Why have you kept this distance between us, Frances? He put his hands on her shoulders and looked down into her drooping face.
gpt
You will be my wife? but at that word a sudden swift memory smote him icy cold and speechless. Frances looking shyly up thought it anxiety for her answer. Into the gray eyes came stealing, flashing, the look he had dreamed of, had resolved to kindle there and read, himself glorified as he read. With a sob in his breath he caught her to him.
human
Frances, he began hurriedly, soon as speech would come,
gpt
but Frances, covered with confusion, was pulling away from him. She had heard Susan's step outside,
human
Susan is coming,
gpt
So be it, he said within himself;
human
I accept!